
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)
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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Gustav Klimt
(1862 - 1918)
Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)
signed Gustav Klimt (lower right)
oil on canvas
43 ¼ by 43 ¼ in. 110 by 110 cm.
Executed circa 1908.
Broncia Koller-Pinell and Dr. Hugo Koller, Vienna and Oberwaltersdorf (acquired by 1928)
Rupert Koller and Silvia Koller, Vienna (acquired by descent from the above by 1949)
Kunsthandlung Franz Schebesta's Erben, Vienna
Private Collection, Vienna
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York (acquired by 1983)
Acquired from the above in December 1985 by the present owner
(probably) Venice, Giardini di Castello, IX Esposizione internazionale d’arte della città di Venezia, 1910, no. 20, p. 60 (titled Prato fiorito)
(probably) Vienna, Galerie Miethke, Gustav Klimt, 1910, no. 3 (titled Blumenwiese)
Vienna, XCIX. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Wiener Secession. Klimt-Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, 1928, no. 9, p. 11 (titled Blumige Wiese)
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, 1933-34 (on loan; titled Landschaft)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture & Design, 1986, p. 161; p. 194, illustrated in color (titled Garden Landscape (Blooming Meadow) and dated circa 1906)
Kunsthaus Zürich, Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918, 1992, no. G 35, pp. 140 and 368; p. 141, illustrated in color (titled Gartenlandschaft (Blühende Wiese) and dated 1904-05)
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, 2001, no. 22, p. 112, illustrated in color; p. 113 (titled Garden Landscape (Blooming Meadow) and dated circa 1906)
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, and Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Gustav Klimt Landscapes, 2002-03, pl. 27, pp. 65, 167, 202 and 216; p. 88, illustrated in color (titled Gartenlandschaft (Blühende Wiese) and dated circa 1905-06)
Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Paintings, Boston, 1968, no. 148, pl. 60, illustrated; p. 340, illustrated (titled Gartenlandschaft and dated circa 1906)
Christian M. Nebehay, ed., Gustav Klimt: Dokumentation, Vienna, 1969, p. 519 (titled Gartenlandschaft (blühende Wiese))
Johannes Dobai, L’opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, no. 135, p. 102, illustrated; p. 103 (titled Prato Fiorito)
Johannes Dobai, “Die Landschaft aus der Sicht von Gustav Klimt. Ein Essay,” Klimt-Studien, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, vol. 22-23, no. 66-67, 1978-79, p. 260
Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt Landscapes, London, 1988, fig. 35, illustrated; pp. 21, 33 and 84; p. 24, illustrated; pl. 25, p. 85, illustrated in color (titled Meadow of Flowers and dated 1906)
Alfred Weidinger, Neues zu den Landschaften Gustav Klimts, Dissertation, Universität Salzburg, 1992, no. 122; p. 105; n.p., illustrated (titled Blühende Wiese)
Gerbert Frodl, Klimt, London, 1992, no. 3, p. 154, illustrated (titled Meadow in Flower and dated 1906)
Wolfgang Georg Fischer, Monika Oberhammer, and Susanna Partsch, et al., Gegenwelten, Gustav Klimt--Künstlerleben im Fin de Siècle, Munich, 1996, p. 97 (titled Gartenlandschaft)
Gottfried Fliedl, Gustav Klimt 1862-1918: The World in Female Form, Cologne, 1998, p. 180, illustrated in color (titled Gartenlandschaft (Blühende Wiese) and dated 1906)
Alfred Weidinger, ed., Gustav Klimt, Munich, London and New York, 2007, pl. 176, pp. 151 and 157; p. 282, illustrated in color (dated 1904-05)
Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt, The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2012, no. 166, pp. 278 and 286; p. 287, illustrated in color (detail); pp. 310 and 598, illustrated in color (titled Flowering Meadow and dated circa 1904-05)
Tobias G. Natter and Elisabeth Leopold, eds., Gustav Klimt, Die Sammlung im Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2013, p. 33, illustrated in color; p. 35 (dated 1904-05)
Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl, eds., Gustav Klimt. Summer Sojourns on the Attersee 1900-1916, Vienna, 2015, no. 19, p. 102; p. 103, illustrated in color (titled Flowering Meadow and dated circa 1904-05)
Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt: Sämtliche Gemälde, Vienna, 2017, no. 166, p. 278; p. 302, illustrated in color; pp. 542, illustrated in color (dated circa 1904-05)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Broncia Koller-Pinell: Eine Künstlerin und ihr Netzwerk, 2024, fig. 10, p. 31, illustrated in color; pp. 35 (note 24) and 198