LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil on paper

Size Notes:

22 by 11? in.

Description:

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Condition:

This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet has been hinged in four places along the verso to a window mat. One carefully repaired tear along the right lower edge, above the figure's proper left foot, only visible under close inspection. Three small spots of foxing at the right upper edges, with few very minimal pindots of foxing scattered throughout the sheet, visible only under extremely close inspection. The edges are lightly time stained and one 1/4 inch accretion to the right lower edge, both not visible when framed. Framed: 25 5/8 by 15 in. (65.1 by 38.1 cm.)

Literature:

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, 1904-1912, vol. II, Salzburg, 1982, no. 1563, p. 116, illustrated (bearing an apocryphal signature)

Provenance:

Kornfeld & Klipstein Bern, 7-8 June 1978, lot 491 The Piccadilly Gallery, London Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1990) Christie's New York, 5 May 2005, lot 131 (consigned by the above) Sting and Trudie Styler, London (acquired from the above) Christie's London, 24 February 2016, lot 38 (consigned by the above) Acquired from the above by the present owner