
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee)
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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Gustav Klimt
(1862 - 1918)
Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee)
signed Gustav Klimt (lower right)
oil on canvas
43 ¼ by 43 ¼ in. 110 by 110 cm.
Executed in 1916.
Heinrich Böhler, Vienna and St. Moritz
Mabel Forbes Böhler, St. Moritz and Lugano (acquired by descent from the above in 1940)
Karleen Forbes Nash (acquired by descent from the above, her sister, and until 1971)
Acquired in December 1972 by the present owner
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Gustav Klimt, 1981, no. 15, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee and dated 1917)
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Gustav Klimt Drawings and Selected Paintings, 1983, no. 6 (dated 1917)
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Gustav Klimt, 1987, no. 35, p. 75, illustrated in color; p. 170 (titled Woudhelling in Unterach aan de Attersee and dated 1917)
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, 2001, no. 33, p. 134, illustrated in color; pp. 135 and 224 (dated 1917)
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere and Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Gustav Klimt Landscapes, 2002-03, pp. 41-42, 67, 166 and 217; pl. 58, illustrated in color (titled Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee (Unterach am Attersee))
New York, Neue Galerie, Birth of the Modern Style and Identity in Vienna 1900, 2011, no. 95, p. 256, illustrated in color; p. 281 (titled Unterach am Attersee)
New York, Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt: 150th Anniversary Celebration, 2012
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 2017-2025 (long term loan)
Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of His Paintings, Boston, 1968, no. 218, p. 373; p. 374, illustrated (dated 1917)
Johannes Dobai, L'Opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, no. 204, p. 110, illustrated (titled Pendio Montano a Unterach sull’Attersee and dated 1917)
Johannes Dobai, “Die Landschaft in der Sicht von Gustav Klimt,” Klimt-Studien, vols. 22-23, nos. 66-67, Vienna, 1978-79, p. 268
Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt Landscapes, London, 1988, fig. 52, p. 30, illustrated; p. 140; pl. 53, p. 141, illustrated in color (titled Mountain Slope at Unerach on the Attersee and dated 1917)
Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Gustav Klimt, 1992, p. 370 (titled Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee and dated 1917)
Gerbert Frodl, Klimt, London, 1992, no. 23, p. 155, illustrated (titled Forest on a slope at Unterach am Attersee and dated 1917)
Alfred Weidinger, Neues zu den Landschaftsbildern Gustav Klimts, Dissertation, Universität Salzburg, 1992, no. 168, p. 142; n.p., illustrated (titled Unterach am Attersee)
Wolfgang Georg Fischer, Monika Oberhammer, and Susanna Partsch, et al., Gegenwelten: Gustav Klimt—Künstlerleben im Fin de Siècle, Munich, 1996, p. 80; p. 86, illustrated in color (titled Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee and dated 1917)
Stephan Koja, “Von hier und „anderswo",” Belvedere: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. 9, no. 2, 2003, fig. 25, p. 75; p. 76, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais, Vienna 1900 Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka, 2005-06, p. 183 (titled Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee)
Rainer Metzger, Gustav Klimt Drawings & Watercolors, New York, 2005, no. 300, p. 390, illustrated in color (dated 1917)
Alfred Weidinger, ed., Gustav Klimt, New York, 2007, no. 234, p. 303, illustrated in color (titled Unterach am Attersee and dated 1916)
Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt, The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2012, no. 223, pp. 281, 285, 511 and 632; pp. 358-59 and 631, illustrated in color (titled Unterach on Lake Attersee)
Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl, eds., Gustav Klimt, Summer Sojourns on the Attersee 1900-1916, Vienna, 2015, no. 46, pp. 100 and 104, illustrated in color; pp.101 and 105 (titled Unterach on Lake Attersee)
Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings, Vienna, 2017, no. 223, pp. 277 and 575; pp. 350-51 and 576, illustrated in color (titled Unterach am Attersee)