Description Property from an Important New York Collection Gustav Klimt 1862 - 1918 Island in the Attersee signed Gustav Klimt (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 39½ by 39½ in. 100.5 by 100.5 cm. Executed circa 1901-02. Provenance Paul and Irene Hellmann (née Redlich), Vienna and Altaussee (acquired by 1926) Joseph Redlich (brother of Irene Hellmann; 1869-1936) or his heirs, Vienna Otto Kallir (Neue Galerie / Galerie St. Etienne), Vienna, Paris and New York (acquired from the above by 1937) Private Collection, New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 1978) Thence by descent to the present owner literature Marie-José Liechtenstein, "Gustav Klimt and his Upper Austrian Salzkammergut landscapes," Art in Austria 1851–1951, contributions to Austrian art history of the 19th and 20th centuries, Linz, 1951, no. 24, p. 120 (titled Insel and dated 1903) Alfred Werner, "The World of Gustav Klimt," Arts, 1959, vol. 22, no. 7, p. 31, illustrated in color (titled Attersee and dated before 1910) Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, Documentation, Vienna, 1969, no. 557, p. 445, illustrated in color Alessandra Comini, Gustav Klimt, London, 1975, pl. 37, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) Hanspeter Zürcher, Still water, Narcissus and Ophelia in poetry and painting around 1900, treatises on art, music and literature (vol. 184), Bonn, 1975, no. 5, n.p., illustrated; p. 133 (dated 1901) Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1975, no. 117, pl. 28 and p. 321, illustrated (dated circa 1901) Johannes Dobai and Sergio Coradeschi, L'Opera completa di Klimt, Milan, 1978, no. 104, p. 99, illustrated (dated circa 1901) Johannes Dobai, "The Landscape in the Perspective of Gustav Klimt, An Essay," Klimt Studies, Announcements of the Austrian Gallery, 1978–79, vol. 22/23, no. 66/67, no. 97, p. 247, illustrated; p. 252 (dated circa 1901) exh. Cat., Seewalchen am Attersee, Villa Paulick, Inselräume, Teschner, Klimt & Flöge am Attersee, 1989, no. 52, pp. 46-47, illustrated in color; illustrated in color on the cover (dated 1901) Jane Kallir, Gustav Klimt 25 Masterworks , New York, 1989, p. 18; p. 19, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) Frank Whitford, Klimt, London, 1990, no. 136, p. 188 (dated circa 1901) Gerbert Frodl, Klimt , London, 1992, no. 3, pp. 102-03, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918, 1992, p. 60, illustrated (dated circa 1901) Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna 1898–1918, Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries , London, 1993, no. 198, p. 229, illustrated (dated 1910) Gottfried Fliedl, Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918, The World in Female Form, Cologne, 1994, p. 92, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) Catherine Dean, Klimt, London, 1996, p. 64; p. 65, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) Alfred Weidinger, "Of Flowers and Blossoming Women—Symbolism in Gustav Klimt's Landscape Paintings," Counterworlds, Gustav Klimt—Artist's Life in the Fin de Siècle, Munich, 1996, p. 100 Alfred Weidinger, "Seeing nature on Lake Attersee, aspects of Gustav Klimt's landscape painting," Parnassus, 2000, vol. 17, no. 20, p. 58 Stephan Koja, ed., Gustav Klimt, Landscapes , Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2002, pl. 13, illustrated in color (dated 1902) Alfred Weidinger, ed., Gustav Klimt, Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2007, no. 156, p. 274, illustrated in color; p. 141, detail illustrated (dated 1902) Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt, The Complete Paintings , Cologne, 2012, no. 144, pp. 296 and 583, illustrated in color; pp. 274, 277 and 492 (dated 1902) exh. Cat., Vienna, Leopold Museum, Gustav Klimt, The Collection in the Leopold Museum, 2013, p. 34, illustrated in color (dated 1902) Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl, eds., Gustav Klimt, Summer Sojourns on the Attersee , 1900–1916 , Vienna, 2015, no. 12, p. 103, illustrated in color; n.p., detail illustrated (dated 1902) Tobias G. Natter, ed., Gustav Klimt, Drawings and Paintings , Cologne, 2018, p. 416, illustrated in color (dated 1902) Sonja Niederacher, Dossier on Gustav Klimt, Am Attersee, 1900 , Leopold Museum, Vienna, 31 January 2019, p. 5, illustrated in color; p. 20, illustrated in an installation photograph of the 1928 Secession exhibition Exhibited Vienna, Secession, XVIII. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists, Secession, collective exhibition Gustav Klimt, 1903–04, no. 37 (titled Insel and dated 1903) Vienna, Secession, Klimt Memorial Exhibition, XCIX. Exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, 1928, no. 48 (titled Wasserstudie: Die Insel (Attersee)) Bern, Kunsthalle, Austrian painting and sculpture in the 20th century, 1937, no. 1 (titled Wasserspiegel) Paris, Galerie St. Etienne, L'Art Autrichien, 1939 New York, St. Etienne Gallery, Saved from Europe, 1940, no. 20 New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Austrian Art of the Nineteenth Century, From Waldmueller to Klimt , 1950, no. 11 (titled Attersee ) New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918: Oils and Drawings , 1959, n.p., illustrated in color New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Kubin, 1961, no. 3 (titled Attersee and dated circa 1903) Berkeley, University Art Gallery and Pasadena Art Museum, Viennese Expressionism 1910–1924, The Work of Egon Schiele with Work by Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka , 1963, no. 11, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Attersee and dated after 1900) New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele , 1965, no. 3, p. 33, illustrated in color (titled Attersee and dated 1900-01) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture & Design , 1986, n.n., p. 191, illustrated in the catalog (dated circa 1901) New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Gustav Klimt: Paintings and Drawings, The Second in a Series Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Galerie St. Etienne , 1989, no. 6 (dated circa 1901) New York, Galerie St Etienne, Saved from Europe, Otto Kallir and the History of the Galerie St Etienne, 1999–2000, pl. 11, illustrated in color (dated circa 1901) Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Gustav Klimt—Landscapes , 2002-03, no. 13, illustrated in color and a detail illustrated on the cover New York, Neue Galerie, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Focus: Oskar Kokoschka, 2009 New York, Galerie St Etienne, Alternate Histories, Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne , 2015, no. 16 New York, Galerie St. Etienne, The Expressionist Legacy, The Third in a Series of Exhibitions Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Galerie St. Etienne , 2019-20, no. 17 (dated 1901)