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Gustav Klimt

( Austrian, 1862 - 1918 )

Birch Forest

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

110.1 x 109.8

Description:

or LOG IN

Markings:

signed GUSTAV KLIMT

Exhibited:

Vienna Secession, XVIII. Ausstellung, Gustav Klimt, November-December 1903, no. 3 or 4.Berlin, Zweite Ausstellung des Deutschen Knstlerbunds, 1905, p. 21, no. 112.Vienna, Kunstschau, 1908, p. 47, no. 9.Venice, IX. Esposizione Internazionale di Venezia, 1910, p. 60, no. 3 (titled I faggi).Kunsthaus Zrich, Ein Jahrhundert Wiener Malerei, May-June 1918, p. 12, no. 60 or 66.Vienna, sterreichische Staatsgalerie, Neuerwerbungen 1918-1921, June 1921, p. 11, no. 52.Vienna Secession, Klimt-Gedchtnisausstellung, XCIX. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Knstler Wiener Secession, June-July 1928, p. 12, no. 39.(possibly) Bern Kunsthalle, 1937, no. 4Vienna, Ausstellungshaus Friedrichstrasse, Gustav Klimt Ausstellung, February-March 1943, no. 10 (illustrated).Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Austria, 1956, no. 121.Kunsthalle Bern, Kunst aus sterreich, February-March 1957, no. 44 (dated 1905).St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Kunst aus sterreich, 1957, no. 29.Tokyo, Sezon Museum, Vienna at the Turn of the CenturyKlimt, Schiele and their Time, October-December 1989.Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, Viena 1900, October 1993-January 1994, p. 189, no. 347 (illustrated in color).Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York, Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, April-October 2006 (illustrated in color).Belvedere Wien, Gustav Klimt und Die Kunstschau 1908, October 2008-January 2009, p. 290 (illustrated in color; dated 1904).Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, pp. 16, 18-19, 26, 29 and 86, no. 18 (illustrated in color, p. 87; illustrated in color again on the cover).

Literature:

H.O. Miethke, Das Werk Gustav Klimt, Vienna, 1914, vol. 4 (illustrated, pl. 6).Mitteilungen Staatsgalerie, 1921, no. 52.M.J. Liechtenstein, Gustav Klimt und seine obersterreichischen Salzkammergutlandschaften, 1951, no. 25.I. Hatle, Gustav Klimt, ein Wiener Maler des Jugendstils, Graz, 1955 (dated 1905).E. Pirchan, Gustav Klimt, Vienna, 1956, no. 75 (illustrated).F. Novotny and J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1967, p. 334, no. 136 (illustrated; illustrated again, fig. 50).J. Dobai and S. Coradeschi, L'opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, p. 102, no. 123 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, fig. XXVI).F. Novotny, im ZusammenhangIm Gegensatz" in Gustav Klimt: Goldene Pforte

Provenance:

Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, Vienna (acquired from the artist).Seized by the Viennese Magistrate, May 1938 (following the Nazi Anschluss of March 1938).With Dr. Erich Fhrer, Vienna (the state-appointed administrator for Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer).Stdtische Sammlung, Vienna (acquired from the above, November 1942).sterreichische Galerie, Vienna (transferred from the above, 1948).Restituted to the heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer by the Republic of Austria, March 2006; sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2006, lot 51 (world auction record for the artist at the time of sale).Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

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