
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Freundinnen nach rechts (Friends facing right)
Live auction begins on:
June 25, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Bid
70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Freundinnen nach rechts (Friends facing right)
stamped faintly with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
pencil on paper
37.5 by 56.5 cm. 14¾ by 22¼ in.
Executed in 1904.
Private Collection, Austria (acquired by 1982)
Private Collection, Munich
Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1993, lot 245 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Gilhofer-Mappe, Gustav Klimt, 10 Handzeichnungen mit einem Begleitwort, Vienna, 1919
Alfred Werner, Gustav Klimt, 100 Drawings, New York, 1972, no. 27, illustrated (titled Study for Water Serpents II and dated 1904/07)
Otto Breicha, Gustav Klimt, Die Goldene Pforte, Werk, Wesen, Wirkung, 1978, pl. 64, illustrated (titled Zwei Liegende Frauen in Umarmung and dated 1907)
Alice Ströbl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, 1904-1912, vol. II, Salzburg, 1982, no. 1397, pp. 74-75, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Grado, Casa della Musica, “Gilhofer & Ranschburg 1919”, in Klimt Printed, 2024, p. 129, illustrated (titled Zwei liegende Akte)
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