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Two Studies of Sitting Female Nudes (Study for "The Beethoven Frieze," Vienna Secession, 1902)

Artist Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)
Title Two Studies of Sitting Female Nudes (Study for "The Beethoven Frieze," Vienna Secession, 1902) (Zwei Studien eines sitzenden Frauenaktes)
Date 1902
Medium Black chalk on paper
Dimensions Image: 17 3/4 × 12 1/4 in. (45.1 × 31.1 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/4 × 12 1/4 in. (45.1 × 31.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Serge Sabarsky, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.117C

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1979, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Serge Sabarsky, New York, NY

after 1968–1979, with Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York, NY

after 1950, Private Collection, United States [1]

after 1950, with Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich, Germany [2]

1907–?, presumably Collection of Carl Reininghaus (1857–1929), Vienna, Austria [3]

Notes:

[1] As given by Alice Strobl/Walter Koschatzky in their catalogue raisonné: Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen. Vol. 1. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1980–84, cat. no. 808.

[2] Strobl/Koschatzky, cat. no. 808.

[3] Strobl/Koschatzky, cat. no. 808. Klimt gave Reininghaus a large number of his preparatory drawings for the frieze after the latter purchased it in 1907, saving it from certain destruction. Reininghaus inscribed these and other drawings in his collection with an “R,” typically found on the recto. According to Strobl, the present drawing also bore this inscription, but it has since been erased (as described in the German in the catalog: “wurde vertilgt”).


Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

1978, "Gustav Klimt Zeichnungen," Galerie Würthle, Vienna, Austria (no. 10)

March 26–May 6, 1977, "32 dessins de Gustav Klimt," Galerie Negru, Paris, France (no. 10)

1976–1977, "Gustav Klimt: Zeichnungen," Galerie Pabst, Munich, Germany and Vienna, Austria

1972, "Gustav Klimt," Arnoldi-Livie Gallery, Munich, Germany (no. 3)

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