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Crouching from the front

Lost Art-ID
585774
Artist / Creator
Klimt, Gustav
Birth
1862.07.14, Baumgarten (Wien)
Death
1918.02.06, Wien
Place of activity
Wien
Title
Crouching from the front
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Chalk black ; Paper / drawn
Height
44.30 cm
Width
30.90 cm
Description

according to Strobl's catalogue of works, no. 3457: Crouching from the front, black chalk. 443 : 309 (irregular margin); signed right below: "Gustav Klimt" and in the right below corner: "R"; Beethoven Frieze 1902 (Novotny-Dobai No. 127); Studie im Zusammenhang mit dem "Nagenden Kummer", ähnlich Kat. Nr. 1/827

300 draft sketches were sold to August Lederer in 1915 together with the Beethoven Frieze from Reininghaus, and most of them bear the monogram "R" for the Reininghaus Collection.

Holding
300-400 Bleistift-Zeichnungen von Gustav Klimt
Provenance
Collection August und Serena Lederer, Vienna, Bartensteingasse 8; March 1938 confiscation by Gestapo from Serena Lederer's apartment; [...]; private collection, Vienna
Literature / Source
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichungen, Nr. 3457 (Studien für den "Nagenden Kummer", die "Unmäßigkeit", "Unkeuschheit" und die "Poesie"; Kat.-Nrn. 3455-3463)
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