Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Serena Lederer
1899190.8 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sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18-20 March 1948, nr. 76, withdrawn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
Other works by Gustav Klimt
Beech Forest
1903
1903
Farm Garden with Crucifix
1911-12
1911-12
Cartoon for the Stoclet Frieze: Fulfilment
1908-10
1908-10
Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer
1917
1917
Portrait of Marie Henneberg
1901-02
1901-02