ACFNY RECOMMENDED | GUSTAV KLIMT: DRAWINGS
The sensuality that Gustav Klimt’s works convey remains powerfully vivid today. Unfazed by social convention, he reveals essential aspects of life, shedding light on the wide range of sexual desire, the experience of pregnancy, and the ineluctable realities of birth and death. Media and society harshly criticized and derided his depictions of body and soul. He exposed the hypocrisy of the Viennese public and encouraged his contemporaries to do the same. His work paved the way for the autonomous evolution of the Vienna art scene; decades later, its influence can still be felt in the Viennese Actionism of the 1960s.
Many of the ca. 4,000 known authentic drawings by Gustav Klimt are in museums and private or public collections. On the occasion of the centenary of Klimt’s death, Shepherd W&K has mounted a special exhibition of forty of the artist’s drawings, including portraits, studies, and a sizable ensemble of nudes. An accompanying publication will be released in the series W&K Edition.
Image: Reclining semi-nude to the right, Study for “The Bride”
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