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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.35
People
Gustav Klimt, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1862 - 1918 Vienna, Austria)
Title
Untitled [Three Male Figure Studies]
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1886-1888
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/69788

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on tan laid paper
Dimensions
40.4 x 32 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, b.l.c., purple ink: NACHLASS//GUSTAV//KLIMT//SAMMLUNG//R. ZIMPEL ["8)N" in pencil]
  • inscription: verso, b.c., graphite: 36 [circled]
  • inscription: verso, b.r.c., graphite: 1103
  • inscription: recto, b.r.c., graphite: 8

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gustav Klimt, Vienna, Austria, Created, 1888.
Rudolf Zimpel, Vienna, Austria. son of Klimt's sister Johanna Zimpel
IBM Fine Arts International, Los Angeles, California.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Germany, Sale, 1993. lot 474 (sold for 6,000 DM)
Lucia Titgemeyer, Munich, Germany, Gift, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lucia Titgemeyer and the Acquisitions Committee of the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.35
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, Galerie Welz (Salzburg, Austria, 1989), p. 47, no. 3289

Exhibition History

  • “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005

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