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Red Sketchbook
Date1898

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

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Object typeDrawing
MediumBooklet bound in red leather, drawings and notes in pencil and a black and white photo
Dimensions
Skizzenbuch: 14,3 × 9,2 × 1,4 cm
Inventory number8508
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Gustav Klimt used this red leather-bound sketchbook beginning in 1898 to capture his spontaneous ideas, including sketches for the works Nuda Veritas (1899), Judith I (1901), Will-o’-the-Wisp (1903), Philosophy (1900), and Jurisprudence (1903). The booklet turned up in the estate of Sonja Knips, one of Klimt’s most prominent patrons. In her portrait, dated 1898, Knips can be seen holding the sketchbook. The artist probably presented it to her either during or immediately after the portrait sessions. Historical records suggest that Klimt used many red sketchbooks like this one, but almost all were lost in a fire at Emilie Flöge’s apartment in 1945.

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Sonja Knips.
Privatbesitz, Wien
1996 Ankauf Kunsthandlung Christian M. Nebehay, Wien

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