Editing Gustav Klimt (section)

==Folios==
===Gustav Klimt: ''Das Werk''===
[[File:Preparatory design - Klimt - Stoclet Palace.jpg|thumb|Klimt often used decorative patterns in his paintings. ''Die Umarmung'' ("The Embrace"), the [[Stoclet Palace]] in [[Brussels]] (1905–1909)|321x321px]]
The only folio set produced in Klimt's lifetime, ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'', was published initially by [[Hugo Othmar Miethke]] (of [[Galerie Miethke]], Klimt's exclusive gallery in Vienna) from 1908 to 1914 in an edition of 300, supervised personally by the artist. The first thirty-five editions (I-XXXV) each included an original drawing by Klimt, and the next thirty-five editions (XXXVI–LXX) each with a facsimile signature on the title page.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/25083387 |title=Das Werk von Gustav Klimt |work=liveauctioneers |access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref> Fifty images depicting Klimt's most important paintings (1893–1913) were reproduced using [[collotype]] lithography and mounted on a heavy, cream-colored [[wove paper]] with [[deckle edge]]s. Thirty-one of the images (ten of which are multi-coloured) are printed on ''[[Chine-collé]]''. The remaining nineteen are high-quality [[halftones|halftone]] prints. Each piece was marked with a unique signet—designed by Klimt—which was impressed into the wove paper in gold metallic ink. The prints were issued in groups of ten to subscribers, in unbound black paper folders [[Paper embossing|embossed]] with Klimt's name. Because of the delicate nature of [[collotype]] [[lithography]], as well as the necessity for multi-coloured prints (a feat difficult to reproduce with collotypes), and Klimt's own desire for perfection, the series that was published in mid-1908 was not completed until 1914.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.1stdibs.co.uk/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/gustav-klimt-kk-hof-und-staatsdruckerei-ho-miethke-das-werk-folio-three-ages-woman-collotype-print/id-a_2051753/ |title=''Das werk Gustav Klimts'' |publisher=1stDibs |access-date=16 December 2019}}</ref>

Each of the fifty prints was categorized among five themes:
# '''Allegorical''' (which included multi-coloured prints of ''The Golden Knight'', 1903 and ''The Virgin'', {{Circa|1912}})
# '''Erotic-Symbolist''' (''Water Serpents I'' and ''[[Water Serpents II]]'', both c. 1907–08 and ''The Kiss'', c. 1908)
# '''Landscapes''' (''Farm Garden with Sunflowers'', 1907) 
# '''Mythical or Biblical''' (''Pallas Athena'', 1898; ''Judith and The Head of Holofernes'', 1901; and ''Danaë'', c. 1908)
# '''Portraits''' (''Emilie Flöge'', 1902)

The monochrome collotypes as well as the halftone works were printed with a variety of coloured inks ranging from sepia to blue and green. Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] was the first to purchase a folio set of ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'' in 1908.

===''Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen - "Twenty-five Drawings"''===
''Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen'' ("Twenty-five Drawings") was released the year after Klimt's death. Many of the drawings in the collection were erotic in nature and just as polarizing as his painted works. Published in Vienna in 1919 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, the edition of 500 features twenty-five monochrome and two-colour collotype reproductions, nearly indistinguishable from the original works. While the set was released a year after Klimt's death, some art historians suspect he was involved with production planning because of the meticulous nature of the printing (Klimt had overseen the production of the plates for ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'', making sure each one was to his exact specifications, a level of quality carried through similarly in ''Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen''). The first ten editions also each contained an original Klimt drawing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.1stdibs.co.uk/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/gustav-klimt-kk-hof-und-staatsdruckerei-ho-miethke-das-werk-folio-three-ages-woman-collotype-print/id-a_2051753/ |title=Gustav Klimts: Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen |publisher=1stDibs |access-date=16 December 2019 | type=auction listing}}</ref>

Many of the works contained in this volume depict erotic scenes of nude women, some of whom are masturbating alone or are coupled in [[sapphic love|sapphic]] embraces.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Néret |first1=Gilles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rAASKPFnaoC&q=Gustav%2520Klimt%2C%2520lesbians&pg=PA47 |title=Gustav Klimt: 1862–1918  |date=2000 |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8228-5980-3 |language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Fliedl|1997|p=192}} When a number of the original drawings were exhibited to the public, at Galerie Miethke in 1910 and the International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings in Vienna in 1913, they were met by critics and viewers who were hostile towards Klimt's contemporary perspective. There was an audience for Klimt's erotic drawings, however, and fifteen of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet [[Franz Blei]] for his translation of Hellenistic satirist [[Lucian]]'s ''Dialogues of the Courtesans''. The book, limited to 450 copies, provided Klimt with the opportunity to show these more lurid depictions of women and avoided censorship thanks to an audience composed of a small group of (mostly male) affluent patrons.

===''Gustav Klimt An Aftermath''===
Composed in 1931 by editor Max Eisler and printed by the Austrian State Printing Office, ''Gustav Klimt An Aftermath'' was intended to complete the lifetime folio ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts''. The folio contains thirty coloured [[collotypes]] (fourteen of which are multi-coloured) and follows a similar format found in ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'', replacing the unique Klimt-designed signets with gold-debossed plate numbers. One hundred and fifty sets were produced in English, with twenty of them (Nos. I–XX) presented as a "gala edition" bound in gilt [[leather]]. The set contains detailed images from previously released works (Hygeia from the University Mural ''Medicine'', 1901; a section of the third University Mural ''Jurisprudence'', 1903), as well as the unfinished paintings (''Adam and Eve'', ''Bridal Progress'').