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Gustav Klimt
1897/98
Object numberGKZ392
Strobl-Nr.Strobl 392
Künstler:in
Gustav Klimt
(Wien 1862 - 1918 Wien)
Date1897/98
Dimensions51,1 × 27,7 cm
MediumPastellkreide auf Packpapier
Signedr.u. "GVSTAV | KLIMT"
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Besitzer:in
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Inv. Nr. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio1958.157
Exhibitionsehemalige:r Besitzer:inbis 1928 Josef Flesch (Wien 1871 - 1928 Wien)Auktion13.5.1930 C. J. Wawra Auktion18.5.1931 Dorotheum Wien ehemalige:r Besitzer:in1956-1958 Galerie St. Etienne (New York)Besitzer:inab 1958 Allen Memorial Art Museum
Werkverzeichnis
Alice Strobl, 1980: Vgl. die künstlerische Auffassung in der "Tragödie".
Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, 2011: In 1897, Gustav Klimt cofounded (and served as president of) the Vienna Secession, a group of artists that stood in opposition to prevailing academic trends and official art circles. Although the erotic nature of much of Klimt's art garnered him numerous unfavorable reviews, his works today are appreciated for their mixture of often sensuous themes and striking use of gold and silver leaf and other precious materials alongside areas of bright color.
Between 1896 and 1898, Klimt created numerous portrait drawings as independent works of art, most of which depict the sitter in profile. In March 1898, he exhibited this drawing of an elegant woman-one of his very few works in pastel in the first Vienna Secession exhibition and published it in the group's avant-garde journal Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring). The sitter's parted lips (revealing small white teeth), rosy cheek, and thick hair pulled back and accentuated with a shiny hairpin contribute to a sense of verisimilitude even as the nervous quality of her quickly sketched hands, dark tonality, and undefined background give the work an enigmatic aspect. The range of deep blacks and grays and restricted, close-cropped composition suggest the influence of Whistler-whose lithographic works were also displayed in the first Secession exhibition.
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