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Klimt, Gustav. The Work. Executed in the K. K. Court and State Printing Office. 3rd delivery (of 5). With 10 plates, 2 of which in coloured collotype, the others in tinted collotype, partly printed on China paper and rolled onto the laid paper boards. Vienna, H. O. Miethke, o. y. [c. 1910]. 48.5 x 47 cm. Title and plates loosely laid in original black delivery envelope with cover title in gold (spine with small tears). The complete 3rd delivery of the portfolio edited in an edition of 300 copies and printed in the Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office Vienna under Klimt's supervision. Like each of the five deliveries it contains ten sheets, two of them in collotype, the rest in tinted collotype, partly printed on China and rolled onto the laid paper boards. The table of contents describes the paintings (title, mass, owner), and each entry is accompanied by a vignette designed by Klimt, which is repeated on the portrait sheets, each printed in gold. The present delivery contains: Still Pond - Procession of the Dead - Female Portrait - Roses under Trees - Medicine - The Sisters - Upper Austrian Farmhouse - Female Portrait - Pallas Athena - Sunflower. - Very good copy. Objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. for these objects VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be refunded the VAT.

zurich, Switzerland