Gustav Klimt

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(Vienna 1862–1918)
Lovers, 1903, signed Gustav Klimt, black chalk on paper, 44.8 x 31 cm, framed

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878–1903, p. 278, 279, no. 963 on both sides illustrated – there the note: reproduced in
Ver Sacrum 1903, issue 22, p. 373 (not yet signed), with square-shaped frame
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, Nachtrag, 1878–1918,
vol. IV, Verlag Galerie Welz, 1989, p. 241/963 (supplements)

Illustrated:
Ver Sacrum 1903, issue 22, p. 373

Exhibited and published:
Experiment Weltuntergang, Wien um 1900, Kunsthalle Hamburg,
10.4.–31.5.1981, no. 34 (with ill.)
Le Arti a Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia, Centro di cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, 1984 (label of the shipping company on the reverse), not illustrated in the catalogue
Gustav Klimt, Kunsthaus Zurich, 11.9–13.12.1992, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1992, p. 274/278 (with ill.)

Literature:
Gottfried Bammes, Das zeichnerische Aktstudium, seine Entwicklung in Werkstatt, Schule, Praxis u. Theorie, Verlag E.A. Seemann, Leipzig 1968,
p. 218, ill. 169
Johannes Dobai, Zu Gustav Klimts Gemälde “Der Kuß”, in: Mitteilungen
der Österreichischen Galerie, Jahrgang 12, 1968, no. 56, p. 111
E. di Stefano, Il complesso die Salome. La donna. I’amore e la morte nella pittura di Klimt, Palermo 1985, p. 117
E. di Stefano, Début eines Jahrhunderts, Essays zur Wiener Moderne, published by Wolfgang Pircher, Vienna 1985, p. 125
Gottfried Fliedl, Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918, Die Welt in weiblicher Gestalt, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne 1989, p. 128 (with ill.)
Fritz Novotny / Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Verlag Galerie Welz, 1997,
p. 343; no. 154 – Der Kuss (oil painting)... sketches: The idea of the
composition is shown by a few drawings illustrated in Ver Sacrum 1903
(1903, 373, 375, 377)...
Marian Bisanz-Prakken, The New Message of Line, in: exhibition catalogue Klimt Schiele Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2018/19, pp. 24, 25, ill. 14

Provenance:
Collection of Helene Hochstetter (c. 1859–1930),
Vienna – Thence by descent;
Private Collection, Vienna