Gustav Klimt

Portrait of Mäda Primavesi



Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Mäda Primavesi



Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Mäda Primavesi
1913
149.9 x 110.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: GVSTAV / KLIMT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Andre and Clara Mertens in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Novotny/Dobai 179

Literature
Tobias G. Natter and Christoph Grunenberg (eds.), Gustav Klimt, London, 2008, fig. 166
Tobias G. Natter, Franz Smola and Peter Weinhäupl (eds.), Klimt, Wien, 2012, p. 275


Exhibitions

2001 Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, Nr. 30

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Primavesi, Olmütz and Vienna, 1913–his death 1926
Mrs. Otto (Eugenia Butschek) Primavesi, Vienna, from 1926
Hugo Bernatzik, Vienna, in 1928, sold or consigned to Neue Galerie
with Neue Galerie, Vienna, from 1928, sold to Steiner
Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, Zedlitzgasse, Vienna and New York, by 1937–died 1958
seized by the Nazis, by 1941 in the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien
restituted to Mrs. Steiner in 1951
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. André Mertens, Westport, Conn. and New York, 1958–63
Mrs. André (Clara Steiner) Mertens, Westport, Conn. and New York, 1963–64

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 64.148

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