About This Artwork

Gustav Klimt
Austrian, 1862-1918

Male Nude with Left Foot on a Pedestal, 1879

Graphite and white heightening on brown wove paper
408 x 267 mm
Signed: "Gustav Klimt 1879"

Gift of Shin'enKan, Inc., Bruce Goff Archives, 2000.447

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Christian Nebehay, Gustav Klimt: Dokumentation (Wien, 1969).

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: die Zeichnungen Nachtrag, 1878-1918 (Salzburg, 1989), vol. 4, no. 3175, (ill.).

Gerbert Frodl, Gustav Klimt in der Österreichischen Galerie in Wien (Salzburg, 1992).

Ownership History

George Klimt (the artist's brother), by April 17, 1923 [letter on back of work]. Bruce Goff (died 1982), by April 20, 1959 [letter in curatorial file]; by descent to Joe Price; given to the Art Institute, 2000.




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