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Gustav Klimt: Erotic Drawings
by Hans H. Hofstatter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light wear to clamshell box, light dampstain to upper of box. Text volume clean and crisp.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams. , 1980.. Light wear to clamshell box, light dampstain to upper of box. Text volume clean and crisp.. Edition: First English language edition., Binding: Full beige cloth boards. Upper with pictorial paste-down and blind lettering. Gilt lettering on spine. Beige pasted and free endpapers. Housed in cloth clamshell box lettered in blind and facsimile of Klimt’s signature in gilt in center., Notes: Folio (415 x 310 mm) housed in elephant folio clamshell box (540 x 425 mm).
A very good example of this selection of Klimt’s erotic drawings of women.
Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was a renown Austrian painter and one of the most prominent figures of the Vienna Secession movement, an art movement formed in 1897 by Klimt and other Austrian artists in protest against the Association of Austrian Artist’s support of more traditional artistic styles. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are described as being marked by a “frank eroticism.” Early in his career, Klimt was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. Thereafter he stopped accepting public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase,” many of which feature use of gold leaf.
, Size: Folio, Pages: P. Half title. Frontispiece. Title. Plate. Preface (pp. 5-21). Blank. Plate section title. Blank. 35 plates. Index (pp. 84-87). Colophon., Category: Book Erotica; Book Modern;
A very good example of this selection of Klimt’s erotic drawings of women.
Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was a renown Austrian painter and one of the most prominent figures of the Vienna Secession movement, an art movement formed in 1897 by Klimt and other Austrian artists in protest against the Association of Austrian Artist’s support of more traditional artistic styles. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are described as being marked by a “frank eroticism.” Early in his career, Klimt was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. Thereafter he stopped accepting public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase,” many of which feature use of gold leaf.
, Size: Folio, Pages: P. Half title. Frontispiece. Title. Plate. Preface (pp. 5-21). Blank. Plate section title. Blank. 35 plates. Index (pp. 84-87). Colophon., Category: Book Erotica; Book Modern;
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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B6888
- Title
- Gustav Klimt: Erotic Drawings
- Author
- Hans H. Hofstatter
- Book Condition
- Used - Light wear to clamshell box, light dampstain to upper of box. Text volume clean and crisp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980.
- Keywords
- Book Erotica; Book Modern;
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