Gustav Klimt Lot n° 11

(Vienna 1862–1918) Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein sitzend von vorne mit großem Dekolleté und Umhang / Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein from the front, seated with large décolleté and shawl, 1904/05, study to portrait (property Neue Pinakothek, Munich; Novotny-Dobai no. 142/Weidinger 179), black chalk on paper, 54.9 x 35 cm, framed Alice Strobl. Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1904–1912, vol. II, Verlag der Galerie Welz, 1982, p. 38, no. 1255, p. 39 ill. Exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue: Gustav Klimt - Egon Schiele. Zum Gedächtnis ihres Todes vor 50 Jahren, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Albertina, Vienna 1968, no. 43 Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who initially planned house Wittgenstein with the architect Paul Engelmann as a home for her (Vienna, 3. Kundmanngasse 19, Parkgasse 18). Provenance: Collection of Franziska Klimt née Prachersdorfer (1873–1943), Vienna by inheritance to her niece Helene Sabor (1911–1998), Vienna her heirs – Private Collection, Vienna