signed Gustav Klimt, black chalk on paper, 44.8 x 31 cm, framed
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, The Drawings 1878-1903, p. 278, 279, no. 963 on both sides illustrated - there the note: reproduced in
Ver Sacrum 1903, issue 22, p. 373 (not yet signed), with a square-shaped frame
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, The Drawings, Supplement, 1878-1918,
vol. IV, Verlag Galerie Welz, 1989, p. 241/963 (supplements)
Illustrated:
Ver Sacrum 1903, issue 22, p. 373
Exhibited and published:
Experiment Weltuntergang, Vienna, 1900, Kunsthalle Hamburg,
10.4.-31.5.1981, no. 34 (with ill.)
Le Arti a Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia, Centro di cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, 1984 (not illustrated in the catalog)
Gustav Klimt, Kunsthaus Zurich, 11.9-13.12.1992, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1992, p. 274/278 (with ill.)
Literature:
Gottfried Bammes, The Drawing Nude Studies, his development in the workshop, school, practice a. Theory, publisher E.A. Sailor, Leipzig 1968,
p. 218, ill. 169
Johannes Dobai, On Gustav Klimt's painting "The Kiss", in: Mitteilungen
the Austrian Gallery, year 12, 1968, no. 56, p. 111
E. di Stefano, Il complesso the Salome. La donna. I'amore e la morte nella pittura di Klimt, Palermo 1985, p. 117
E. di Stefano, Début one century, Essays on Viennese Modernism, published by Wolfgang Pircher, Vienna 1985, p. 125
Gottfried Fliedl, Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918, The World in Female Form, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne 1989, p. 128 (with ill.)
Fritz Novotny / Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Verlag Galerie Welz, 1997,
p. 343; no. 154 - The Kiss (oil painting) ... sketches: The idea of the
composition is shown by a few illustrations in Ver Sacrum 1903
(1903, 373, 375, 377) ...
Marian Bisanz-Prakken, The New Message of Line, in: exhibition catalog Klimt Schiele Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2018/19, pp. 24, 25, ill. 14
Provenance:
Collection of Helene Hochstetter (c.1859-1930),
Vienna - Thence by descent;
Private Collection, Vienna