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Gustav Klimt

Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi) (Portrait of Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi))

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Gustav Klimt

1862 - 1918


Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi) (Portrait of Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi))

signed Gustav Klimt and dated 1902 (upper left)

oil on canvas

149.5 by 44.2 cm. 58⅞ by 17½ in.

Executed in 1902.

Dr Anton Loew, Vienna (commissioned from the artist in 1902)

Sophie Loew, Vienna (wife of the above; acquired by inheritance from the above in 1907)

Gertha Baruch von Felsőványi (née Loew), Vienna (acquired from the above by 1918)

Gustav Ucicky, Vienna (acquired circa 1941)

Ursula Ucicky, Vienna (acquired by inheritance from the above in 1961)

Klimt Foundation, Vienna (acquired as a gift from the above in 2013)

Klimt Foundation and The Heirs of Gertha Felsőványi (ownership settlement agreed between the two parties in 2014)

Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 2015, lot 26 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Vienna, Wiener Secessionsgebäude, XVIII. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs Secession – Kollektiv Ausstellung Gustav Klimt, 1903-04, no. 40 (titled Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens)

Dresden, Städtischer Ausstellungspalast, Grosse Kunstausstellung, 1904, no. 250, illustrated (titled Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens)

Berlin, Zweiten Ausstellung des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, 1905, either no. 105, 106, 107 or 108

Vienna, Volksheim, Porträtausstellung, 1912, no. 98 (titled Frau G. Baruch-Loew

(probably) Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ein Jahrhundert Wiener Malerei, 1918, no. 56 (titled Bildnis Frau F.)

Vienna, Wiener Secessionsgebäude, Klimt-Gedächtnisausstellung, 99. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Wiener Secession, 1928, no. 15 (titled Bildnis

Venice, Giardini di Castello, XXIX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1958, no. 4 

Vienna, Wiener Secessionsgebäude; Künstlerhaus and Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Wien um 1900, 1964, no. 38, illustrated in colour (titled Damenbildnis)

Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wege der Moderne: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos und die Folgen, 2014-15, n.n., illustrated 

New York, Neue Galerie, Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age: 1900-1918, 2016-17, n.n., illustrated in colour

New York, Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary, 2018

San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter, 2017-18, no. 23, illustrated in colour

New York, Neue Galerie (extended loan 2017-19)

Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. 16, 1905, p. 309, illustrated in colour (titled Bildnis)

Ludwig Hevesi, Acht Jahre Secession (März 1897-Juni 1905). Kritik - Polemik - Chronik, Vienna, 1906, pp. 443 and 451

“Art at Home and Abroad,” New York Times, 4 August 1912, illustrated

Hugo Haberfeld, “Gustav Klimt," Die Kunst. Monatshefte für freie und angewandte Kunst, vol. 4, 1912, p. 176, illustrated (titled Damenbildnis)

Galerie Miethke, Vienna, ed., Das Werk Gustav Klimts, 1908-14, illustrated in colour

Emil Pirchan, Gustav Klimt, Vienna, 1942, no. 59, illustrated

Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1967, no. 125, p. 325, illustrated; pl. 26, illustrated in colour and pl. 27, illustrated in colour (detail)

Christian M. Nebehay, ed., Gustav Klimt, Dokumentation, Vienna, 1969, no. 440, p. 318, illustrated and pl. II, illustrated (detail)

Hanspeter Zürcher, Stilles Wasser. Narziss und Ophelia in der Dichtung und Malerei um 1900, Bonn, 1975, p. 75

Johannes Dobai and Sergio Coradeschi, L'opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, no. 112, p. 100, illustrated 

Gerbert Frodl, Klimt, London, 1992, p. 94, illustrated in colour

Moritz Czáky, ed., Hermann Bahr: Tagebücher, Skizzenbücher, Notizhefte, vol. III, Vienna, 1994, p. 255

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Klimt und die Frauen, 2000-01, p. 99, illustrated in colour 

Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt, Cologne, 2001, p. 30, illustrated in colour

Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war. Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna, 2003, p. 356, illustrated

Alfred Weidinger, ed., Gustav Klimt, Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2007, no. 159, p. 183, illustrated in colour (detail) and p. 275, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Leopold Museum, Koloman Moser, 2007, no. 14, p. 174, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, 2007-08, p. 18, illustrated in a facsimile of the ‘Art at Home and Abroad’ article from 1912

Exh. Cat., London, The Wellcome Collection, Madness and Modernity. Mental illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900, 2009, p. 124, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Seoul, Hangaram Art Museum, Gustav Klimt. In Search of the 'Total Artwork', 2009, no. 6, p. 34, illustrated in colour

Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2012, no. 145, pp. 224 and 583, illustrated in colour 

Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl, eds., 'Chiffre: Sehnsucht–25'. Gustav Klimts Korrespondenz an Maria Ucicka 1899–1916, Vienna, 2014, p. 39, illustrated in colour

Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt. Drawings & Paintings, Cologne, 2018, p. 317, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and Vienna, Belvedere, Klimt Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse, 2022-23, p. 118, fig. 99, illustrated in colour