The existence of the painting "Birches at Lake", a hundred years lived a recluse in a family collection, scientists have learned recently. The canvas will be at Sotheby's in February 2012 with an estimate 6.8 million pounds

Gustav Klimt Birch at the lake.
1901 Oil on canvas. 90 x 90
Sotheby's. 08.02.2012
Estimate: 6.8 million pounds
Source: artdaily.com

not have time at Sotheby's as it should be noted paintings by Gustav Klimt "Littslberg on the Attersee" for 40.4 million dollars , as the auction house announced the next work by this artist, put up for sale. It is about re-open masterpiece "Birches at Lake» (Seeufer mit Birken) 1901 year, which will appear at the London auction at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern February 8, 2012 estimate: 6.8 million pounds. The existence of this work of art community became known recently, it may be said to have opened again.

first picture of the "Birch in the Lake" in 1902 at an exhibition in Dusseldorf bought famous collectors Richard and Clara Koenigs-Bunge (Richard & Klara Koenigs-Bunge). The love of art in this family, passed down from generation to generation. For example, the brother of Richard Felix Koenigs was in the heart of the Berlin Secession, and the nephew of Richard Franz Koenigs was the owner of one of the finest collections of paintings and drawings of Old Masters in Europe. Koenigs himself Richard gathered a remarkable collection of works of art, includes works by Rodin and Segantini.

work Klimt Richard and Clara Koenigs-Bunge gave his daughter, Martha Koenigs in 1903 for the wedding. Since then handed down to the canvas over a hundred years. When the descendants of Koenigs this year decided to authenticate the work, it became obvious that it is being specialists in Klimt is not known. It was not included in the printed catalog in 2007-Raisonné of the artist. Deputy Director of the Vienna Gallery Belvedere and the author of this catalog Alfred Veydinger called the discovery "a sensation».

Studies have found a letter to Mary Zimmerman, Klimt 1901, in which the artist writes about the work on a series of landscapes, including a painting with a group of trees on the sunny shore of the lake. Scanning infrared beam detected by a layer of paint preparatory sketch, characteristic of Klimt. And finally, the picture was found in the Vienna Secession exhibition, 1902, at which the work of "Birch in the Lake" captures a number of other works by Klimt.

«Birch the lake, "Gustav Klimt wrote while on holiday in Lake Attersee in the suburbs of Vienna, where he had gone every summer since 1899. The painting depicts the lake shore, sparkling ripples on the water; canvas split two small birch trees, setting the rhythm of the composition canvas. Integrity paper gives a balanced and well thought-out composition: on the right side in the foreground - the vertical trunks of birch trees, and on the left - the horizontal line of the lake and distant shores, and all together creates a reverse perspective. lush green grass and yellow flowers perfectly complement the azure water. All the colors and objects located at specific locations in each color and the subject has its echo.

proportions of unusual for the landscape - it is square. This innovative format was characteristic of Monet and Klimt, the latter used the square canvases exclusively for landscapes since 1899: the world within a square of canvas is rather instinctive emotional experience, rather than thinking about a specific imprinted in the landscape position.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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