Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 305


305
Gustav Klimt
Sitzend nach links, den Kopf nach rechts gewendet, 1903.
Black Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 34,925 / $ 38,417

(incl. surcharge)
Sitzend nach links, den Kopf nach rechts gewendet. 1903.
Black Chalk drawing.
Verso inscribed by a hand other than that of the artist. On packaging paper. 46 x 31.1 cm (18.1 x 12.2 in), size of sheet. [CH].

• Preparatory study for the famous painting "Portrait of Hermione Gallia" (1904, National Gallery, London).
• The drawings for the painting were made in several sessions at Klimt's studio.
• Instead of the facial features, the artist put focus on the posture, pose and dress of the sitter, which makes up more than a third of the image, both in our study and in the painting.
• An expression of Klimt's intensive occupation with the materiality of the then very fashionable ‘Reform’ dress.
• Klimt rendered the essence of the delicate, flowing fabric of the elegantly swinging flounce and the train made of several layers of almost translucent chiffon with a lively stroke and a rich line.
• Both in the present work and in the monumental painting, the portrayed seems to almost float above the ground due to the lightness of the material.
• At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermine and Moriz Gallia were part of the wealthy Viennese bourgeoisie. They adorned their five-storied house on Wohllebengasse with, among other things, avant-garde paintings, decorative arts from the Wiener Werkstätte and the most modern furniture by Josef Hoffmann.
• Other drawings for "Portrait of Hermine Gallia" can be found in museums like the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz
.

PROVENANCE: Serge Sabarsky Collection (1912-1996), New York.
Serge Sabarsky Estate, New York (1996).
Vally Sabarsky Collection (1909-2002), New York.
Vally Sabarsky Foundation, New York.

EXHIBITION: Gustav Klimt, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, January 29 - February 24, 1981, cat. no. 6 (with the date 1902/03).
Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele. Dessins et Aquarelles, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, June 13 - August 12, 1984, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, August 31 - October 14, 1984, Palazzo Reale, Turin, December 15, 1984 to February 16, 1985, cat. no. 5.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Zeichnungen, Schloss Halbturn, May 3 to October 1988, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, February 16 - April 2, 1989.
Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn (NY), August 26 - October 14, 1989.
Gustav Klimt, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, December 1, 1991 to March 16, 1992, cat. no. 57.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Zeichnungen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, April 14 - May 27, 1992,
Gustav Klimt, Palacu Sztuki, Cracow, June 9 - July 12, 1992.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie Lovis-Kabinett, Villingen-Schwenningen, July 25 - September 27, 1992.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Drawings, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston (SC), May 28 - June 13, 1993.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Zeichnungen, Museum moderner Kunst, Passau, June 12 - August 28, 1994.
Gustav Klimt. Dessins, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, October 5 - November 30, 1994.
Gustav Klimt. 100 kreseb, Císaiská konírna, Prague, May 24 - July 23, 1995.
Gustav Klimt. 100 Zeichnungen, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, June 12 - August 31, 1996, Städtische Galerie, Klagenfurt, May 22 - September 21, 1997.

LITERATURE: Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, vol. I (1878-1903), Salzburg 1980, cat. no. 1053, pp. 298f. (with illu.) and pp. 292f. (with full-page illu.).
Alfred Werner, Gustav Klimt. One Hundred Drawings, New York 1972, cat. no. 46 (with illu.).




305
Gustav Klimt
Sitzend nach links, den Kopf nach rechts gewendet, 1903.
Black Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 34,925 / $ 38,417

(incl. surcharge)