JEWELLERY ANTIQUE & ART Tuesday, 4 August 2020 - 9:30 AM start
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Realised: $1,200 plus premium
Lot Details
"Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen" (Standing Girl with Lace Headdress, collotype, printed 1919, signed in the plate, Ed. 500. 495 x 280mm. Note: Published by Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Vienna, July 1919. The importance of this portfolio lies in the aesthetic achievement of capturing the variations of Klimt's style between 1898 and 1917. These drawings of women are suffused by a veil of sexuality, well-accepted by the Viennese society. Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen is erotic material that would circulate privately among Vienna's upper-class men. The emotional fluidity of Klimt’s erotic drawings created and still creates an intense psychological reaction in the viewer.
