Only one folio set of prints was produced during Klimt’s lifetime. Das Werk Gustav Klimts featured fifty of the artist’s most important paintings and painstakingly reproduced them as collotypes. They were published by subscription in an edition of 300 between 1908 and 1914. The year after Klimt’s death, a second folio - Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen ("Twenty-five Drawings") – was published in an edition of 500. Although released posthumously, Klimt is suspected to have been involved due to the meticulous care taken with the printing. Very early on, collotype prints became the go-to medium for capturing the beauty and subtlety of Klimt’s drawings.
In 1922, the folio 50 Handzeichnungen was published in Vienna. Once again, the collotype printing process was used to create fifty stunningly beautiful prints of drawings that Klimt had produced between 1904 and 1918. These drawings were made available for reproduction by various private collectors of Klimt's work. Only 375 impressions of each image were made. Our examples are from edition number 138.
For this weekend only, collotypes from the beautiful folio can be purchased at a 20% discount. Email hello@hiddengallery.co.uk or call 0117 279 6402 to secure your artwork today!