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Gustav Klimt 'Drawings and watercolours'

 

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Gustav Klimt

Drawings & Watercolours

Rainer Metzger

‘Delightful … includes some intensely sexy drawings of women that make plain the artist’s desire for them with every caressing line’
– Frank Whitford,
The Sunday Times

‘Klimt at his best’
– The Independent on Sunday

There can be no doubt about Klimt’s greatness as a draughtsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolours.

Rainer Metzger brings together hundreds of Klimt’s works on paper in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre. Many revolve around Klimt’s taboo-breaking main themes – the naked woman, erotica and homoerotica – while others provide allegorical and historical insights. Between these two poles lie Klimt’s elegantly direct preparatory sketches and studies, tirelessly and manically executed – frameworks that would lay the foundations for his paintings.

This book is a fitting testament to a hitherto neglected aspect of Klimt’s art, which is as complex and contradictory as the times in which it was made and as the man who made it.

Vienna-based art historian and writer Rainer Metzger is a lecturer at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Stuttgart University, and the Academy of Art in Karlsruhe. His books include Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings.
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* ISBN 050023826X
* ISBN-13 978-0500238264
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* 22.9 x 15.2 cm
* PLC with Jacket
* 400pp
* 309 illustrations, 282 in colour
* First published 2005
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