€60,000
GUSTAV KLIMT
(Vienna 1862 - 1918 Vienna)
Study for the Mäda Primavesi portrait, 1912 - 13
pencil/japan paper, 55.9 x 36.7 cm
Exhibited in 3rd international drawing: triumph of the genius. Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse, exhibition catalog, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 1970, Cat. No. 137.
depicted in Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. The drawings 1904-1912, Volume II, Salzburg 1982, p. 276, Fig. P. 277, catalogue raisonné no. 2117a; in Marian Bisanz-Judks, Gustav Klimt. 14 Drawings, Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (ed.), Vienna 2015, p. 33; in Marian Bisanz-Brakken, Gustav Klimt. Drawings, Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (ed.), Vienna 2018, Cat. No. 35.
provenance: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles; Private collection Los Angeles; Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 2014; Private collection Austria; Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, Vienna, private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 60.000 - 80.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 60.000
Gustav Klimt, an important protagonist of Viennese Modernism and Art Nouveau, studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Julius Viktor Berger and Ferdinand Laufberger between 1876 and 1883. After completing his studies, he formed a studio community with his brother Ernst and fellow artist Franz Matsch, and together they designed ceiling paintings in Vienna's Hermes Villa, the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and the ceiling frescoes of the two staircases in the Burgtheater. After the death of his brother and the dissolution of their studio, Klimt, already a celebrated painter, co-founded the Vienna Secession in 1897 and became its first president. In 1905 he resigned from the Secession. He maintained close contact with the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte (WW), founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmenn with Koloman Moser and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, as a result of which he was commissioned in 1904 to paint a frieze in the Stoclet city palace in Brussels, built by Josef Hoffmann. At the 1908 Vienna Art Show, Klimt was given his own room, where he was able to present his works "Adele Bloch-Bauer" and "The Kiss," among others, to a wide public. Klimt was a close friend of the Olomouc bankers and industrialists Otto and Eugenia "Mäda" Primavesi, whose patronage was of great importance. In 1912 Kimt was commissioned by Otto Primavesi to paint a portrait of Eugenia "Mäda" Primavesi (today in the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan) and one of their daughter Mäda Gertrude Primavesi (today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA). One of Gustav Klimt's preliminary studies for the portrait of Mäda Gertrude will be auctioned.
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