GUSTAV KLIMT
India ink and pen on paper
Image: 40.2 x 40.5 cms (Sheet measures 43.5 x 47 cms)
Signed Lower Right: Gustav
KlimtExecuted: 1898
Bibliography:
1. Ver Sacrum I, Issue # 3, March 1898, Vienna, page 6 (as Fischblut )
2. Christian Nebehay,Ver Sacrum 1898-1903, Edition Tusch, Vienna, 1975
Ver Sacrum 1898-1903, Rizzoli, New York, 1977; page 110
3. Colin B. Bailey, Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 2001 in collaboration with The National Gallery of Canada, page 89
4. Christian Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, 1960; Beilage Zur Liste: Ver Sacrum, Jahrang I (1898); Issue 3 March 1898, Seite 6 , Cited as "Buchillustration: Fur V.S. (Ver Sacrum ) gez. Gust. Klimt, : Meerjung-frauen auf dem Rucken schwimmend, von grossem Fisch verfolgt"
5. Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustave Klimt, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York and Washington, Cited on page 308 as a sketch and motif for Moving Water 1898 (Bewegtes Wasser, 1898). It is further cited that Fishblood was originally published in the original 1898 volume of Ver Sacrum I, no. 3, March 1898, page 6. Moving Water, 1898 is cited as plate 94, page 308 in the Novotny/Dobai text.
6. Catherine Dean, Klimt, Phaidon Press, Ltd. London , 1996 (reprinted ’98, ’99, ’01)
Plate #9, Cited as Fish Blood, and mistakenly noted as having the precise dimensions of the Ver Sacrum I , Issue #3 lithograph as 29.8 x 28.8 cms. Dean also mistakenly identifies the provenance as the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien in Vienna, whereas the work has always been in private collections since the Secession Exhibition of 1903.
7. Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, vol. I , 1878-1903; Welz Verlag, Salzburg, 1980. Illustration from Ver Sacrum March, 1898, Illustration # S 675
8. Gilles Neret,Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Taschen, Germany 2006; Illustrated page 20 as Fish Blood 1898, and noted on page 94 as Plate 20 below right; also noted as "dimensions and location unknown".
9. Christian M Nebehay, Ver sacrum 1898-1903, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Munich 1975, page 111 (illustrated)
10. Dr. Ilona Sarmany- Parsons, Klimt, Crown Publishers, New York/Bonfini Press, Naefels Switzerland; 1987; Page 11 (full page plate). Cited as Original Destroyed
11. Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Nuda Veritas and the Origins of the Vienna Secession, 1895-1905; Szepmuveszzeti Muzeum, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition; 23 Sept 2010 -9 January 2011, Full page color illustration p. 69. The catalogue cites (p. 234): "Until recently this most famous drawing was only known as a full page illustration in Ver Sacrum, the indications 18 ½ inches refer only to the framing lines in the reproduction (published illustration), which measures 185 x 185 cms. Since it’s rediscovery, the original work has been shown and published here for the first time".
12. Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt: The Drawings, Exhibited at the Albertina Museum, Vienna 14 March 2012- 10 June 2012 under the curation of Dr Bisanz-Prakken and published as Fishblood.
13. Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line , (3 July- 23 Sept. 2012), also organized in collaboration with the Getty Center's senior curator Lee Hendrix and Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken of the Albertina. Dr Bisanz-Prakken has also published a new book, while she continues to work on the Supplement to Strobl’s Catalogue Raisonne of 1980, in which Fischblut will be included (in addition to Strobl’s 1980 inclusion as Illustration # S 675). The new text will be organized around the Albertina and Getty exhibitions and entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, (ISBN 10: 1606061119/ISBN 13: 9781606061114) to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Klimt’s birth. Fischblut is illustrated and discussed in this new text.
PROVENANCE:
Exhibited in the Secession Exhibition, Vienna : Nov.-December 1903 (no. 72)
The Nebehay Gallery, Vienna (?)
Imra Rozsa (sold to Rosza in Geneva, )
Leopoldina Rozsa (by inheritance and legally exported (export license issued by the Austrian government’s Bundesdenkmalamt on 6 July 1959[no. 2225/59]. )
Private Collection New York
Note: Sarah Jackson (Historic Claims Director) of The Art Loss Register (of New York and London) has generated a 19 page report certifying the work is clear of all claims and enjoys good and uncompromised title in her report of 27 November 2006.
Also Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, curator of the Albertina in Vienna, and past research assistant/archivist of Dr. Strobl, and current author of Dr. Strobl’s Supplement to her Catalogue Raisonne of 1980 (cited above), has confirmed (after conferring both with Dr. Strobl herself, as well as Dr Krug (director of the Nebehay Gallery) in Vienna, that the work will positively be included with correct dimensions and a NY domicile, in the forthcoming Supplement to the Strobl Catalogue Raisonne. Also Sophie Lillie of Vienna has conducted extensive research at the BDA in Vienna, as well as conducted a full and complete vetting of the work with all required clearances; giving the work bona fides of title and authenticity. The actual export license from the Bundesdenkmalamt dated 6 July 1959 (no. 2225/59) was secured citing clear passage from Vienna to New York on that date with knowledge and clearance of the work by the Austrian government for export.
ADDENDUM:
Fischblut (Fish Blood) after the Szepmuveszeti Muzeum ( Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, 23 Sept. 2010- 9 January 2011) Nuda Veritas: Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession, 1895-1905 exhibition, the masterwork traveled to and was exhibited at the Albertina Museum in Vienna (12 March- 10 June 2012) in the exhibition Gustav Klimt: The Drawings, curated by Klimt expert and scholar Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken (Senior Curator of the Albertina). Fischblut (FishBlood) then travelled to the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center) in Malibu, California for the celebrated exhibition entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line , (3 July- 23 Sept. 2012), also organized in collaboration with the Getty Center's senior curators by Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken of the Albertina. Dr Bisanz-Prakken has also published a new book, while she continues to work on the Supplement to Strobl’s Catalogue Raisonne of 1980, in which Fischblut will be included (in addition to Strobl’s 1980 inclusion as Illustration # S 675). The new text will be organized around the Albertina and Getty exhibitions and entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, (ISBN 10: 1606061119/ISBN 13: 9781606061114) to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Klimt’s birth. Fischblut is illustrated and discussed in this new text and will remain on exhibit at the Getty Center until 23 Sept. 2012. Also see the links to the Getty exhibition, in which Fischblut is prominently featured:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/klimt/video.html
Fischblut (Fishblood)
India ink and pen on paper
Image: 40.2 x 40.5 cms (Sheet measures 43.5 x 47 cms)
Signed Lower Right: Gustav
KlimtExecuted: 1898
Bibliography:
1. Ver Sacrum I, Issue # 3, March 1898, Vienna, page 6 (as Fischblut )
2. Christian Nebehay,Ver Sacrum 1898-1903, Edition Tusch, Vienna, 1975
Ver Sacrum 1898-1903, Rizzoli, New York, 1977; page 110
3. Colin B. Bailey, Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 2001 in collaboration with The National Gallery of Canada, page 89
4. Christian Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, 1960; Beilage Zur Liste: Ver Sacrum, Jahrang I (1898); Issue 3 March 1898, Seite 6 , Cited as "Buchillustration: Fur V.S. (Ver Sacrum ) gez. Gust. Klimt, : Meerjung-frauen auf dem Rucken schwimmend, von grossem Fisch verfolgt"
5. Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustave Klimt, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York and Washington, Cited on page 308 as a sketch and motif for Moving Water 1898 (Bewegtes Wasser, 1898). It is further cited that Fishblood was originally published in the original 1898 volume of Ver Sacrum I, no. 3, March 1898, page 6. Moving Water, 1898 is cited as plate 94, page 308 in the Novotny/Dobai text.
6. Catherine Dean, Klimt, Phaidon Press, Ltd. London , 1996 (reprinted ’98, ’99, ’01)
Plate #9, Cited as Fish Blood, and mistakenly noted as having the precise dimensions of the Ver Sacrum I , Issue #3 lithograph as 29.8 x 28.8 cms. Dean also mistakenly identifies the provenance as the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien in Vienna, whereas the work has always been in private collections since the Secession Exhibition of 1903.
7. Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, vol. I , 1878-1903; Welz Verlag, Salzburg, 1980. Illustration from Ver Sacrum March, 1898, Illustration # S 675
8. Gilles Neret,Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Taschen, Germany 2006; Illustrated page 20 as Fish Blood 1898, and noted on page 94 as Plate 20 below right; also noted as "dimensions and location unknown".
9. Christian M Nebehay, Ver sacrum 1898-1903, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Munich 1975, page 111 (illustrated)
10. Dr. Ilona Sarmany- Parsons, Klimt, Crown Publishers, New York/Bonfini Press, Naefels Switzerland; 1987; Page 11 (full page plate). Cited as Original Destroyed
11. Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Nuda Veritas and the Origins of the Vienna Secession, 1895-1905; Szepmuveszzeti Muzeum, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition; 23 Sept 2010 -9 January 2011, Full page color illustration p. 69. The catalogue cites (p. 234): "Until recently this most famous drawing was only known as a full page illustration in Ver Sacrum, the indications 18 ½ inches refer only to the framing lines in the reproduction (published illustration), which measures 185 x 185 cms. Since it’s rediscovery, the original work has been shown and published here for the first time".
12. Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt: The Drawings, Exhibited at the Albertina Museum, Vienna 14 March 2012- 10 June 2012 under the curation of Dr Bisanz-Prakken and published as Fishblood.
13. Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line , (3 July- 23 Sept. 2012), also organized in collaboration with the Getty Center's senior curator Lee Hendrix and Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken of the Albertina. Dr Bisanz-Prakken has also published a new book, while she continues to work on the Supplement to Strobl’s Catalogue Raisonne of 1980, in which Fischblut will be included (in addition to Strobl’s 1980 inclusion as Illustration # S 675). The new text will be organized around the Albertina and Getty exhibitions and entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, (ISBN 10: 1606061119/ISBN 13: 9781606061114) to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Klimt’s birth. Fischblut is illustrated and discussed in this new text.
PROVENANCE:
Exhibited in the Secession Exhibition, Vienna : Nov.-December 1903 (no. 72)
The Nebehay Gallery, Vienna (?)
Imra Rozsa (sold to Rosza in Geneva, )
Leopoldina Rozsa (by inheritance and legally exported (export license issued by the Austrian government’s Bundesdenkmalamt on 6 July 1959[no. 2225/59]. )
Private Collection New York
Note: Sarah Jackson (Historic Claims Director) of The Art Loss Register (of New York and London) has generated a 19 page report certifying the work is clear of all claims and enjoys good and uncompromised title in her report of 27 November 2006.
Also Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, curator of the Albertina in Vienna, and past research assistant/archivist of Dr. Strobl, and current author of Dr. Strobl’s Supplement to her Catalogue Raisonne of 1980 (cited above), has confirmed (after conferring both with Dr. Strobl herself, as well as Dr Krug (director of the Nebehay Gallery) in Vienna, that the work will positively be included with correct dimensions and a NY domicile, in the forthcoming Supplement to the Strobl Catalogue Raisonne. Also Sophie Lillie of Vienna has conducted extensive research at the BDA in Vienna, as well as conducted a full and complete vetting of the work with all required clearances; giving the work bona fides of title and authenticity. The actual export license from the Bundesdenkmalamt dated 6 July 1959 (no. 2225/59) was secured citing clear passage from Vienna to New York on that date with knowledge and clearance of the work by the Austrian government for export.
ADDENDUM:
Fischblut (Fish Blood) after the Szepmuveszeti Muzeum ( Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, 23 Sept. 2010- 9 January 2011) Nuda Veritas: Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession, 1895-1905 exhibition, the masterwork traveled to and was exhibited at the Albertina Museum in Vienna (12 March- 10 June 2012) in the exhibition Gustav Klimt: The Drawings, curated by Klimt expert and scholar Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken (Senior Curator of the Albertina). Fischblut (FishBlood) then travelled to the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center) in Malibu, California for the celebrated exhibition entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line , (3 July- 23 Sept. 2012), also organized in collaboration with the Getty Center's senior curators by Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken of the Albertina. Dr Bisanz-Prakken has also published a new book, while she continues to work on the Supplement to Strobl’s Catalogue Raisonne of 1980, in which Fischblut will be included (in addition to Strobl’s 1980 inclusion as Illustration # S 675). The new text will be organized around the Albertina and Getty exhibitions and entitled Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, (ISBN 10: 1606061119/ISBN 13: 9781606061114) to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Klimt’s birth. Fischblut is illustrated and discussed in this new text and will remain on exhibit at the Getty Center until 23 Sept. 2012. Also see the links to the Getty exhibition, in which Fischblut is prominently featured:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/klimt/video.html
