Gustav KLIMT: Actress - signed lithograph, 1919
Actress, 1919
Lithography (collotype technique)
Signed in the plate
On paper 52 x 32.5 cm
Presented in its vintage mat 60 x 41 cm (which has some foxing)
Information: Slightly corrugated paper on the upper part
Limited to 500 copies, published by Gilhofer and Ranschburg in Vienna in 1919
Edition initiated during the artist's lifetime for which he gave 10 original drawings. Completed a few months after his death, this is a rare opportunity to own a work produced at the time and under the control of the artist.
Very good state
Dimensions :
- Height : 52 cm
- Width : 32 cm
Gustav Klimt :
(1862-1918) born in Baumgarten (Austria) on July 14th, 1862 and died in Vienna (Austria) on February 6th, 1918.
Gustav Klimt is an austrian symbolist painter, and key figure of the Secession movement, which he founded in 1897 with Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, Wilhelm Bernatzik and others. Then already successful, with this movement he was hoping to transform art, and to break off with conservatism. This movement spreaded the Art Nouveau spirit in the whole country, and contributed to transform art in a general sense.
He made more than 200 paintings (including a lot of women's portraits) among which the public knows particularly well he "golden period", in reference to the gold leaves he was using on his canvases.
His work is now exhibited all around the world.
