Gustav Klimt - Litzlberg am Attersee 1914-1915
Litzlberg am Attersee 1914-1915
110x110cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 40.4 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, New York
Sale date: 02 November 2011
Seller: Anonymous owner
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Location: Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg
From Sotheby’s, New York:
Klimt and his model Emilie Flöge spent the summer months of 1914 in Weissenbach on the south shore of Attersee, where a relative of the Flöge sisters lived. The couple returned there the following two summers, usually staying between July and mid-September. The sisters, their mother Barbara, and the young Helene Klimt moved into the house next door to their relative, while Klimt found lodgings in the forester's house on the outskirts at the entrance to the Weissenbach valley. The forester's house where Klimt stayed was the subject of two of his paintings, Forsthaus in Weissenbach am Attersee, now in the Neue Galerie, New York and Landhaus am Attersee. Despite their separate lodgings, Klimt and the Flöges spent most of the time together; the artist was often seen in his caftan-like cloak taking photographs or painting, although he rarely had contact with the local inhabitants.