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Artist NameGustav Klimt (Vienna state 1862 - 1918 Vienna)
TitleJohanna Staude (Female Portrait, Frontal View) [Weibliches Halbbild von vorne]
Date of Artwork1917/18
MediumPencil on cream wove paper, mounted on greenish paper
Size19 3/4 x 12 2/3 in. • 501 x 325 mm
SignedSigned lower left: GUSTAV / KLIMT; Inscribed on lower portion of secondary support: Gustav Klimt, den Idealen der Natur bist Du, fast eigentlich / unbewußt, nahegerückt, und selbst Deine einfachen, eigentlich adeligen / Bauerngärten mit Sonnenblumen und Unkraut enthielten / einen Hauch der Poesie des Schöpfers! So hieltest Du Dich auch allmälig / abseits von den Menschen, die dafür keinerlei Verständnis haben! / Gustav Klimt, Du warst ein Mensch!!! / Peter Altenberg / 21. 12. 1918. Inscriptions on verso of secondary support: inscribed lower left corner: 90 (encircled), inscribed lower right corner: 06.279P, inscribed lower center: Eigentum / Frau Staude-Widlicka / Wien VI / ...allag 2.

Provenance

as per inscription: Johanna Staude, Vienna;
Serge Sabarsky, New York

Literature

1984    Alice Stobl, ed., Gustav Klimt. Band III. Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918 (Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1984), cat. rais. no. 2726, p. 150, b/w ill. 151;

2015    Agnes Husslein-Arco, Jane Kallir, and Alfred Weidinger, eds., The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka (Munich: Prestel, 2015), cat. no. 34, ill. p. 88;</p

Exhibition History

1962    Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Zeichnungen, Gedächtnisausstellung, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, October 16 – December 16, 1962, cat. no. 220, “Privatbesitz”;

1970    Internationale der Zeichnung, Sonderausstellungen Gustav Klimt und Henri Matisse, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, August 15 – November 11, 1970, cat. no. 198, “Mr. and Mrs. Serge Sabarsky”;

1981    Gustav Klimt, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, January 29 – February 24, 1981, cat no. 107;

1984    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Dessins et aquarelles, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, June 13 – August 12, 1984, cat. no. 29;

1992    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, August 31 – October 14, 1984, cat. no. 29;

1992    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Museo Civico, Bolzano, October 28 – December 9, 1984, cat. no. 29;

1992    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Disegni e acquarelli, Palazzo Reale, Torino, December 15, 1984 – February 16, 1985, cat. no. 29;

1987    Europalia 87 �-sterreich. Gustav Klimt, Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Brussels, September 17 – December 16, 1987, cat. no. 111;

1989    Gustav Klimt: 1862 – 1918, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, June 2 – October 14, 1989;

1991    Gustav Klimt, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, December 1, 1991 – March 16, 1992, cat. no. 96;

1992    Gustav Klimt: 100 Drawings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, April 14 – May 27, 1992;

1992    Gustav Klimt, Palacu Sztuki, Cracow, June 9 – July 12, 1992;

1992    Gustav Klimt: 100 Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie Lovis-Kabinett, Villingen-Schwenningen, July 25 – September 27, 1992;

1993    Gustav Klimt: 100 Drawings, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, May 28 – June 13, 1993;

1994    Gustav Klimt: 100 Zeichnungen, Museum moderner Kunst, Passau, June 12 – August 28, 1994;

1994    Gustav Klimt: Dessins, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, October 5 – November 30, 1994;

1995    Gustav Klimt: 100 kreseb, Císaiská konírna, Prague, May 24 – July 23, 1995

1996    Gustav Klimt: 100 Zeichnungen, Mittelrhein Museum Koblenz, Koblenz, June 12 – August 31, 1996;

1997    Gustav Klimt 100 Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, May 22 – September 21, 1997;

2015    The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, October 22, 2015 – February 28, 2016, cat. no. 34;

2016    Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900-1918, Neue Galerie, New York, September 22, 2016 – January 16, 2017;

2017    The Woman Question: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, March 14 – June 30 2017, cat. no. 25, “Johanna Staude (Female Bust, Frontal)”;

2018    Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary, Neue Galerie, New York, June 28, 2018 – January 21, 2019;

2018    Gustav Klimt, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Moritzburg, Germany, October 2018 – January 6, 2019;</p

Further Information

According to Alice Strobl, this drawing is a study for Klimt's painting, Portait of Johanna Staude (1917-1918), currently housed by the Belvedere.