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Two Reclining Female Nudes Embracing from the Right. Study for Water Snakes II, 2nd Version, 1905/06

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Purple crayon on Japanese paper
35×55.1 cm

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

    (Baumgarten near Vienna/Vienna 1862–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Alice Strobl associated this drawing with the comprehensive group of reclining female nudes which Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) created in connection with the 1906/07 reworked version of his painting Water Snakes II. In this and numerous comparable studies, Klimt positioned the reclining figures strictly parallel to the edges of the depiction, mostly favoring the top half, and covering the entire width of the sheet. Klimt captured the reclining figure situated closer to the beholder, which almost completely covers the nude behind her, with angular, geometrical outlines characteristic of the artist’s style of drawing of those years. The shape of the nude from behind largely corresponds to the rear view of the water snake Klimt realized in the upper left part of the painting in the final version of Water Snakes II. Along with this study, the Leopold Museum owns five further studies for the work Water Snakes II: Study for Water Snakes II, Study for Water Snakes II, Study for Water Snakes II, Study for Water Snakes II and Study for Water Snakes II.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Gustav Klimt
Title
Two Reclining Female Nudes Embracing from the Right. Study for Water Snakes II, 2nd Version
Date
1905/06
Art movement
Symbolism, Art Nouveau
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Purple crayon on Japanese paper
Dimensions
35×55.1 cm
Signature
Stamp (black) lower right: GUSTAV KLIMT NACHLASS
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1327
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: 1492
Keywords
woman/girlnudelying figure (fem.)the (nude) human figure (fem.)embracing/kissing

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Gustav Klimt, Wien (1918); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1964-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Nachlassstempel »GUSTAV / KLIMT / NACHLASS« vorne rechts
  2. Sonja Niederacher, Gustav Klimt. Zwei liegende weibliche Akte in Umarmung nach rechts. Studie zu „Wasserschlangen II“, 2. Zustand, 1905/06. Dossier vom 31.01.2017.

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