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Bust Portrait of a Young Lady in Profile from the Left, called The English Girl, 1904/05

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Pencil, white chalk, blue and red crayon on Japanese paper
55.2×35 cm

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

    (Baumgarten near Vienna/Vienna 1862–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In 1904/05 Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) created some 15 known portrait studies of one and the same model who – as was handed down by Erich Lederer – was dubbed The English Girl. Her distinctive stub nose and smoothly shaped neck and shoulders inspired Klimt to execute numerous profile studies. In many of these renderings, as in the present one from the Leopold Museum, Klimt contrasted the precisely drawn outlines of the face and neck with a background of light hatching, allowing the shapes to stand out as in a relief. In this portrait, Klimt further emphasized the particularly fine strokes through the use of crayons and white heightening. The work boasts an oval signature placed within the composition to great effect. Moreover, it featured in the portfolio on Klimt’s drawings from the Lederer Collection published by Gilhofer & Ranschburg in 1919.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Gustav Klimt
Title
Bust Portrait of a Young Lady in Profile from the Left, called The English Girl
Date
1904/05
Art movement
Art Nouveau, Symbolism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Pencil, white chalk, blue and red crayon on Japanese paper
Dimensions
55.2×35 cm
Signature
Signed lower left using pencil: Gustav Klimt
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1289
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Gustav Klimt. Die Sammlung im Leopold Museum, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Elisabeth Leopold, Ostfildern 2013 (Bestandskatalog des Leopold Museum: Band 1).
  • Alice Strobl: Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Salzburg 1982.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Strobl Bd. 2/1982: 1200
Keywords
woman/girlblousehairdress (fem.)

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Sammlung Lederer, Györ/Wien (vor 1919); (1)

Während der NS-Zeit sichergestellt und im Depot Salzberg Alt-Ausee eingelagert.
1948 an Erich Lederer übergeben.

Erich Lederer, Genf (ab 1948); (2)
Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, München (vor 1962); (3)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1982-1994); (4)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Gustav Klimt. Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen, Wien 1919, Tafel 1; Tobias G. Natter / Elisabeth Leopold (Hrsg.), Gustav Klimt. Die Sammlung im Leopold Museum, Ostfildern 2013, S. 226, Nr. Z 23
  2. Michael Wladika, Dossier „LM Inv. Nr. „1289, 1296, 1319“ vom 31.01.2018, S. 16
  3. Grafische Sammlung Albertina, Katalog zu „Gustav Klimt 1862-1918. Zeichnungen“, Wien 1962, S. 46, Nr. 121 (Taf. 11)
  4. Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Bd. 2, Salzburg 1982, S. 20, Nr. 1200

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