Bidspirit auction | Gustav Klimt, original collotype ”Lucian

Gustav Klimt, original collotype ”Lucian of Samosata” - Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ”Lucian of Samosata, ” Original collotype, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (sheet), full margins. Leipzig: Julius Zeitler, 1907. Rare edition of 450 copies. Klimt's fluid, erotic illustrations were selected by him from a series of studies he had undertaken in preparation of his two celebrated ”Water Serpents” paintings, 1904-1907 Hayn-Got. IV, 294. The frame is new, 21.5 x 25.5 inches.