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Artist NameGustav Klimt (Vienna state 1862 - 1918 Vienna)
TitleSeated Female Semi-Nude, Leaning Over [Angelehnt sitzender weiblicher Halbakt]
Date of Artwork1916/17
MediumPencil on cream wove paper
Size22 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. • 570 x 375 mm
SignedInscribed lower right corner: 21 (encircled); erased and illegible inscription lower left corner; inscribed lower left corner on verso: 7708; inscribed lower right corner on verso: 2913; inscribed upper right on verso: 7708

Provenance

as per Strobl: Galerie Welz, Salzburg;
Serge Sabarsky, New York, since circa 1984

Literature

1926    Paul Verlaine, Femmes (Vienna: The Book-Dandys, 1926), p. 18;

1984    Alice Strobl, ed., Gustav Klimt. Band III. Die Zeichnungen 1912 – 1918 (Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1984), cat. rais. no. 2966, p. 204, b/w ill. p. 205, titled “Angelehnt sitzender Halbakt”;</p

Exhibition History

1984    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Dessins et Aquarelles, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, June 13 – August 12, 1984, no. 21;

1984    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, August 31 – October 14, 1984, no. 21;

1984    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Museo Civico, Bolzano, October 28 – December 9, 1984, no. 21;

1984    Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Disegni e acquarelli, Palazzo Reale, Torino, December 15, 1984 – February 16, 1985, no. 21;

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

2010    Stadthalle Balingen, Balingen, Germany, September 2010 – February 2011;

2017    The Woman Question: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, March 14 – June 30 2017, cat. no. 21, titled “Seated Semi-Nude”;</p