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Specialists for this auction Europe India Phillips Global Head of Department, London Hannah Foster Head of Department, London Ruth Woodbridge Head of Sale, London Julia Ryff Specialist, London Aimée Honig Junior Specialist, London Frederick Millar Cataloguer, London Cassi Young Specialist, London Itziar Ramos Cataloguer, London Christine de Schaetzen Specialist, Brussels Benedetta Alpini Specialist, Milan Emilie Millon Specialist, Paris North America Molly Ott Ambler Head of America, New York Preeya Franklin Senior Specialist, New York Emily Wilson Cataloguer, New York Caitlyn Pickens Director, Philadelphia Asia Yao Yao Director Private Clients, China Dorothy Lin Specialist, Hong Kong Ryo Wakabayashi Senior Specialist, Tokyo PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED BRITISH COLLECTION 1 GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918) Kopf - und Handstudien signed with the artist’s initials ‘G·K’ and inscribed ‘R’ (lower right) pencil on buff paper 50 x 34.5cm (19 11/16 x 13 9/16in). Executed in 1902 £18,000 - 25,000 €20,000 - 28,000 US$24,000 - 33,000 Provenance Erich Lederer Collection, Vienna. The Piccadilly Gallery, London (circa 1973). Private collection, UK (acquired from the above). Private collection, UK (by descent from the above). Private collection, London (acquired from the above). Exhibited London, The Piccadilly Gallery, Gustav Klimt, 30 October - 24 November 1973, no. 22 (later travelled to New York; titled ‘Sketches for the “Beethoven Frieze”’). Literature A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, Vol. I, 1878 - 1903, Salzburg, 1980, no. 838 (illustrated p. 245). The present work is a study for three key figures from Gustav Klimt’s famous Beethoven Frieze now in the Secession Building, Vienna, Austria. The heads to the left are studies for the two angels seen in the upper left of the mural entitled Die Kunst, while the head to the lower right relates to the female figure personifying lust in the central part of the composition.