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Girlfriends II (The Girlfriends)

Lost Art-ID
592011
Artist / Creator
Klimt, Gustav
Birth
1862.07.14, Baumgarten (Wien)
Death
1918.02.06, Wien
Place of activity
Wien
Title
Girlfriends II (The Girlfriends)
Dating
1916/17
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
99.00 cm
Width
99.00 cm
Description

after Weidinger, No 236: Freundinnen II, dated 1916/17, size: 99 x 99 (?) cm, technique: oil on canvas, inscribed bottom left: "GUSTAV / KLIMT", Provenance: August and Serena Lederer; Vienna (until 1938)

exhibitions: Vienna (Secession) 1936, no. 9; Paris (Jeu de Paume des Tuileries) 1937, no. 369; Bern (Kunsthalle) 1937, No. 10; Vienna (exhibition house Friedrichstraße, former Secession) 1943, No. 56 (fig.), sketches: Strobl, III, No. 2751-2812, 2821-2843; IV; No.3712-3715

Provenance
Collection August and Serena Lederer, Vienna (1940); confiscated by Gestapo and "sichergestellt", officially burned at Immendorf Castle, Lower Austria, on 8 May 1945, looting cannot be excluded
Literature / Source

BDA Wien Restitutionsmaterialien Karton 9 Sammlung Lederer, Liste der sichergestellten Kunstgegenstände vom 20.11.1940 Nr. 103;

Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war, 2003, August und Serena Lederer, Liste der sichergestellten Kunstgegenstände Nr. 103; Alfred Weidinger, Gustav Klimt, 2007, Werksverzeichnis-Nr. 236; 0. A. (Klimt Nachlese), 1946, S. 9-10, Tafel 1 (farbig); Riehl, 1947, S. 180; Hatle, 1955, S. 99; Novotny/Dobai, 1967, Kat.-Nr. 201; Whitford, 1990, S. 190

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