GUSTAV KLIMT (AUSTRIAN 1862-1918)

GUSTAV KLIMT (AUSTRIAN 1862-1918)
Liegender Halbakt Nach Rechts (Half-Nude Reclining to the Right), circa 1914-1915
pencil on paper
37 x 54.9 cm (14 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
stamped Gustav Klimt Nachlass on verso

PROVENANCE
Collection Serge Sabarsky, New York
Sotheby's New York, 8th May 2013, lot 422
Sotheby's, London, February 16, 2017, lot 6
Private collection, New York

We are grateful to Jane Kallir for her assistance in cataloguing this work.

EXHIBITED
Paris, Salle Saint Jean, L'Hotel de Ville de Paris, Gustave Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Dessins et Aquarelles, 1984, no. 24 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen & Cesky Krumlov, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Dessins et Aquarelles, 1995-1996
Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt. The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, October 18, 2007-June 30, 2008, Nr. D105

LITERATURE
Alfred Werner, Gustav Klimt: One Hundred Drawings (New York, 1972), no. 85, pl. 85 (illustrated)
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, 1912-1918, vol. III (Salzburg, 1984), p. 71, no. 2404 (illustrated)