“This unique and intimate treasure of a book captures the sensual pleasure of an artist’s sketchbook as well as the genius behind Klimt’s vision of women.
Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist’s sketchbook, this exquisite volume culls the artist’s most beautiful erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing it awakens the senses, while affording the reader the guilty pleasure of leafing through an artist’s most private visions. The stunning color reproductions, embossed cover and calf binding make this a perfect gift for lovers of art and for lovers everywhere.” (Amazon)
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“An exhibition of 120 of Gustav Klimt’s lesser known erotic drawings was recently on view at the Maillol Museum in Paris. Apart from his extraordinary landscapes, atmospheric and almost spiritual, which were primarily vacation work painted during summers spent on the Attersee, the Viennese artist’s theme has always been La Femme. His women are often sumptuously attired and extravagantly decorated, or naked, sitting or standing coyly as are the three Gorgones from La frise Beethoven . However, in the Paris exhibition they were in various states of dress and undress, sprawled in armchairs and lying on the floor in every position both imaginable and unimaginable.” (read more: “Gustav Klimt: Erotic Drawings of Young Women” by Patricia Boccardo, June 27th, 2005)
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“It’s hard to believe there was a time when Gustav Klimt could be described as “little known,” as he was by an underwhelmed New Yorker art critic in 1959, who dismissed the fin de siècle Austrian painter’s first, posthumous U.S. solo show as a sentimental medley of “allegory, mild eroticism and good old German romanticism.” Klimt’s meteoric rise in popularity during the 1960s and 1970s owes much to the initial two certified stateside Klimtomaniacs: Neue Galerie cofounders Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky, whose extensive collections are featured in this lovingly researched exhibition of paintings, drawings and ephemera. (It’s billed as the artist’s first American museum retrospective, though that promises more than the show delivers.) […]
As in Reclining Nude Facing Right (1912–13), a red-and-blue pencil sketch of a masturbating woman rendered in an undulating, electric lines, they convey a passion absent in, or excised from, his paintings.” (read more: “Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections” by Anne Wehr, Time Out New York, issue 642, Jan. 17-23, 2008).
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