Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005920Male Nude
by Gustav Klimt
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, recto, lower right, in graphite: "Gustav Klimt Jan. 29 / 1 1880"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "1059"
Provenance
Georg Klimt (the artist’s brother), Vienna; Private collector, Austria, from 1927 [according to London 2002 auct. cat.]; by descent, until 2002; sold, Christie’s, London, June 27, 2002, lot 334, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 101, cat. 66 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy," June 22-Sept. 29, 2013, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen 1878–1918, vol. IV (Salzburg, 1989), pp. 16 –17, cat. 3176 (ill.), as Männlicher Rückenakt, die Finger am Hinterkopf verschränkt. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 101, cat. 66 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt / Austrian, 1862–1918
- Date
- January 29, 1880
- Medium
- Various graphite pencils, with erasing and stumping, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 42.5 × 26.7 cm (16 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Austria
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.961
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