Gustav Klimt Lot n° 49

Seated figure leaning to the right, study for the portrait painting of Hermine Gallia, 1903/'04 thin black chalk on paper 45,1 x 31 cm Estate stamp on the reverse: Nachlass Gustav Klimt Sammlung R. Zimpel We are grateful to Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken for for her assistance PROVENANCE Vienna, Rudolf Zimpel collection (grandson of the artist); Rome, private collection. LITERATURE Ch. M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt Zeichnungen und Dokumentation , catalog XV, Vienna, 1968, n ° 8; A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt , Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903, vol.I, publisher Galerie Welz, 1980, pp. 294 and 295, ill. n ° 1018