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Girlfriends (Water Serpents I)
Freundinnen I
Date1904 (minor amendments in 1907)

Künstler*in Gustav Klimt (1862 Wien – 1918 Wien)

ULAN

Object typeGemälde
Medium Watercolour, gouache, pencil, gold, silver, platinum and brass on parchment
Dimensions
50 × 20 cm
SignatureBez. rechts unten: GUSTAV / KLIMT
Inventory number5077
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Klimt’s aquatic beings, described by the artist as “water serpents” or “water nymphs,” seem bewitchingly detached from the real world. In dreamy, flowing movements they float above the ocean floor in the midst of golden seaweed. A glimmering fish stares out at us with a fixed gaze from the lower right of the picture. Influenced by the Symbolist art movement, the artist used these aquatic creatures to symbolize a mystical realm. Klimt created this work on parchment at the height of his Golden Period.

Provenance
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Galerie Miethke, Wien.
1908 Karl Wittgenstein, Wien.
1956 Ankauf Kunsthandel L. T. Neumann, Wien

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