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GUSTAV KLIMT | Lithograph | The girl with her eyes closed, 1917 (Reclining Female Semi-Nude with Closed Eyes / Liegender weiblicher Halbakt mit geschlossenen Augen).

 (1862 - 1918)

LITHOGRAPH | The girl with her eyes closed, 1917

  • Handsigned & numbered edition at 85 ex.
  • From the original drawing of Gustav Klimt (Leopold museum, Vienna)
    Study for one of his most famous paintings     "The Bride"
  • For the first time in the world in Lithograph *

GUSTAV KLIMT | Lithograph | The girl with her eyes closed, 1917 (Reclining Female Semi-Nude with Closed Eyes / Liegender weiblicher Halbakt mit geschlossenen Augen)

* Prior to this edition and despite misleading information on various art galleries and websites, this drawing by Gustav Klimt has never been printed in lithography. It is more precisely facsimiles from a portfolio, far from the quality of a lithograph and which fail to reproduce a number of features and colors (white chalk) yet well present on the original drawing.
The version we propose today reproduces, for the first time in lithography, this drawing as Gustav Klimt realized it in 1917.

  • Title :  The girl with her eyes closed, 1917 (
    Reclining Female Semi-Nude with Closed Eyes /    Liegender weiblicher Halbakt mit geschlossenen Augen).
  • Technique : Lithography
  • Date of edition : 2023
  • Publisher : FRANCE ART DIFFUSION
  • Lithography workshop : Atelier Clot, Paris
  • Size : 70,0 x 50,0 cm / 27.6 x 19.7 in
  • Paper : BFK Rives 270g
  • Justification : Numbered & Handsigned by the lithographer, handsigned by the publisher
    Dry stamp of the publisher
    Note in pencil : imp Clot, Paris (Clot Printer, Paris)
  • Certificate of authenticity
From the drawing to its printing, this lithograph has been entirely realized by hand.
With the same technical and artistic constraints, the same moves are made on the very same period machines. Drawn and printed colour by colour on "Marinoni Voirin" lithographic flat press of 1920.

REMOVAL OF MATRICES AFTER PRINTING

 

Once the printing of the lithograph is finished, we guarantee the destruction of matrices.
Its printing is made only once, with the number of expected editions.

LITHOGRAPH PRINTED AT THE CLOT WORKSHOP IN PARIS



Since 1896, its name is associated with those of the greatest painters of the end of the 19th century to now.
Lautrec, Degas, Renoir, Rodin, Monet, Munch....  or more recently Foujita, Matisse, Calder, Soulages... printed their artworks here .

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