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GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
Dame en face mit plisiertem Kleid (Damenbilden en face)
signed 'GUSTAV KLIMT' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on board
17 x 13 1/4 in. (43.2 x 33.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1898
Provenance
Galerie H.O. Miethke, Vienna, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Kommerzialrat Julius Reich, Vienna, by whom acquired from the above in 1909; his sale, C.J. Wawra, Vienna, 7 November 1922, lot 160 (illustrated).
Bernhard Altmann, Vienna, by whom acquired at the above sale, from whom confiscated by the Gestapo in June 1938; sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 June 1938, lot 379.
Gustav Ucicky [the artist's son], Vienna, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (inv. 5449) by bequest from the above in 1961.
Restituted to the heirs of Bernhard Altmann in 2004; sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 2006, lot 363.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 4 February 2009, lot 32.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale and thence by descent.
Literature
J. Dobai, Das Frühwerk Gustav Klimts (dissertation), Vienna, 1958, pp. 154-155.
Österreichischen Galerie, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, vol. V, No. 49, Vienna, 1961, p.4 (illustrated fig. 6).
F. Novotny & J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Paintings, London, 1968, no. 97, p. 309 (illustrated & illustrated again pl. 23; dated 'c. 1898-9').
J. Dobai & S. Coradeschi, L'opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, no. 80, p. 96 (illustrated & illustrated again pl. XII).
A. Bäumer, Gustav Klimt Women, New York, 1987, p. 46 (illustrated p. 47).
G. Frodl, Klimt, London, 1992, no. 1, p. 153 (illustrated).
G. Frodl, Gustav Klimt in der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere in Wien, Salzburg, 1992, p. 50 (illustrated p. 51, titled 'Bildnis einer Dame').
T.G. Natter & G. Frodl, exh. cat., Klimt's Women, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2000, p. 80 (illustrated).
L. Payne, Essential Klimt, London, 2000, p. 85 (illustrated).
S. Lillie, Was einmal war. Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna, 2003, no. 379, p. 53 (titled 'Frauenkopf').
A. Weidinger, ed., Gustav Klimt New York, 2007, no. 115, p. 257 (illustrated).
T.G. Natter, Gustav Klimt The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 2012, no. 106 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Gustav Klimt 29 Gemälde, ausgestellt im Oberen Belvedere aus Anlass der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages, October - December 1962, no. 4 (titled 'Damenkopf').
Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art, Wien um 1900: Klimt, Schiele und ihre Zeit, October - December 1989, no. 96 (illustrated).
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Gustav Klimt November 1991 - March 1992, no. 16 (illustrated p. 97).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Gustav Klimt September - December 1992, no. G20, p. 110 (illustrated p. 111).
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, Un Sueño Vienés, February - May 1995, no. 2, pp. 42 & 110 (illustrated p. 43).
Special Notice
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