Gustav Klimt

Portrait of Serena Lederer



Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Serena Lederer



Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Serena Lederer
1899
190.8 x 85.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: GVS.TAV / KLIMT·
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Literature

Colin B. Bailey (ed.), Gustav Klimt, Modernism in the Making, New York, 2001, fig. 95
Renée Price (ed.), Gustav Klimt, New York; Munich, 2007, p. 62, fig. 13


Provenance

August and Serena Lederer, Bartensteingasse, Vienna, 1899–his death 1936, commissioned from the artist
Serena Lederer, Vienna, 1936–died 1943
their son, Erich Lederer, Geneva, 1943–1980
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18-20 March 1948, nr. 76, withdrawn
on deposit from 1949–80 in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Basel
sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1980.412

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Gustav Klimt Pale Face
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Gustav Klimt Poppy Field
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