Auction House

Auction: Modern Art

26. February 2019, 2:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0001

Gustav Klimt

(Wien 1862 - 1918 Wien)

„Study for the portrait of Sonja Knips“
1898
black chalk on paper
45 x 31,4 cm

Provenance

formerly gallery Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich;
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles;
Mitzi Landau, Los Angeles;
Suppan Fine Arts, Vienna, Christmas auction, 29 November 1999, no. 230;
acquired there, since then private property, Austria

Exhibition

1962 Vienna, Albertina, Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918, Zeichnungen, memorial exhibition, no. 17;
1970 Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, Internationale der Zeichnung, special exhibition Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse, no. 16

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1878 - 1903, vol. I, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1980, cat.-no. 411, ill. p. 133

We are grateful to Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken for her help in cataloguing this drawing.

Estimate: € 15.000 - 25.000
Hammer price: € 27.000
Auction is closed.