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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Gustav Klimt

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)