Reclining Naked Female Figure with a

Baby

1910, Blue crayon on paper, 370 x 500 mm, Strobl 1960;

Estate stamp: NACHLASS / GUSTAV / KLIMT

Verso (with sheet used vertically): standing naked female figure bent forward, with hands on her back, 1908/09, in blue crayon

Provenance:

Collection of Rudolf Staechlin, Basel (no. 238)

Galerie Würthle, Vienna

Private collection, Vienna

Literature:

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, vol. II: 1904–1912, Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1982, pp. 234–235, no. 1260 (illus.); pp. 198, 214–215, no. 1895 (illus.).

Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Egon Schiele 1890-1918, James Ensor 1860-1949, Alfred Kubin 1877-1959, Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, Veith Turske (ed.), mit Irène Kutter, Erwin Mitsch, Barbara Catoir und Alice Strobl, Galerie Knoedler, Zürich, 24.9. -3.12.1983, Verlag M. Knoedler Zürich AG, Kat. Nr. 18, Illus. Rainer Metzger, Gustav Klimt: Das graphische Werk, Vienna 2005, pp. 256–57, (no. 1960 illus.)

Exhibitions:

Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Egon Schiele 1890-1918, James Ensor 1860-1949, Alfred Kubin 1877-1959, Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, Veith Turske (ed.), mit Irène Kutter, Erwin Mitsch, Barbara Catoir und Alice Strobl, Galerie Knoedler, Zürich, 24.9. -3.12.1983, Kat. Nr. 18, Illus.