Mar 03, 2011 - Sale 2238

Sale 2238 - Lot 572

Price Realized: $ 19,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
GUSTAV KLIMT
Frauenakt.

Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1897. 440x310 mm; 17 3/8x12 1/4 inches. Inscribed by the artist's sister, Johanna Klimt Zimpel, in ink, lower right recto. Ex-collection Janet and John E. Marqusee, New York, with the printed label on the frame back.

Studies for the female nude in the upper left quadrant of Klimt's Medezin, oil, 1897, now in the Leopold Museum, Vienna.