Modern Day Auction including Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Modern Day Auction including Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Gustav Klimt

Halbakt mit erhobenen Armen und angezogenen Schenkeln (Half Nude with Raised Arms and Bent Knees)

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Live auction begins on:

June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Bid

40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gustav Klimt 

1862 - 1918


Halbakt mit erhobenen Armen und angezogenen Schenkeln (Half Nude with Raised Arms and Bent Knees)

stamped with the Nachlass mark and inscribed by Hermine Klimt Nachlass meines Bruders Gustav, Hermine Klimt (lower left)

pencil on paper

56.5 by 36.5 cm. 22¼ by 14⅜ in. 

Executed circa 1916-17.

Hermine Klimt, Vienna (the artist’s sister)

Private Collection, USA

Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1992, lot 132 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Gustav Klimt: Paintings and Drawings, 1965, no. 44, pp. 8 and 15, illustrated (titled Seated Nude with Arms Raised)

Alice Ströbl, Gustav Klimt Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1984, no. 2802, pp. 170-171, illustrated