GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
Freundinnen in Umarmung
stamped with the artist's Nachlass stamp (lower left)
coloured pencil on paper
55.2 x 35cm (21 3/4 x 13 3/4in).
Executed circa 1905-1906
Footnotes:
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Hermine Klimt Collection (the artist's sister).
Lillian Langseth-Christensen Collection, New York (acquired by 1971).
Private collection (acquired from the above through Galerie St. Etienne, New York, in 1981); their sale, Christie's, New York, 20 September 2011, lot 65.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale).

Literature
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, Vol. II, 1904-1912, Salzburg, 1982, no. 1491 (illustrated p. 97).
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