
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi) (Portrait of Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsőványi))
Live auction begins on:
June 24, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000,000 - 30,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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
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