About the Artwork
Sleeping Child
ca. 1906
Gustav Klimt
1862-1918
Austrian
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Graphite pencil on cream wove paper
Sheet: 21 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (54.9 × 34.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
67.96
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Gustav Klimt Nachlass
Stamp, Klimt's blue stamp, lower right: [Lugt 1575]
Provenance
Gustav Klimt estate (Vienna, Austria);Christian M. Nebehay (Vienna, Austria);
1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Strobl, Alice. Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen. Vol. 2, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912. Salzburg, 1982, pp. 52-53, no. 1306 (ill.).
Gustav Klimt: 56 Zeichnungen. Exh. cat., Galerie Christian M. Nebehay. Vienna, 1967, no. 35 (ill.).
Novotny, Fritz, and Johannes Dobai. Gustav Klimt. Salzburg, 1987, p. 374, no. 221.
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 252-253, no. 139 (ill.).
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Gustav Klimt, Sleeping Child, ca. 1906, graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 67.96.
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