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Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie

Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie

SKU:45-183

Regular price €48,95 EUR
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DESIGNER'S NOTES

This distinct Fox & Chave silk tie features elements from the painting Wasserschlangen II (1907), in English Waterserpents II, by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).

The painting has had a colourful history. It was originally commissioned for Jenny Steiner, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and after the death of her husband Gebrüder Steiner, was herself the director of a silk manufacturing company.

Under the Anschluss of 1938 and being of Jewish heritage, her family's factories were expropriated by the Nazis and her extensive art collection, which included many works by Klimt including Wasserschlangen II, was stolen and auctioned in Vienna beginning in 1940. Steiner escaped with many of her family members to Portugal, then Brazil and finally to the USA.

In 2013 the painting was one of the works at the centre of The Bouvier affair, when it was sold, potentially fraudulently, by the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier to the Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $183.3 million.

The painting is an oil on canvas and the last in a series of four works with the theme of nymphs which includes Wasserschlangen I.

COLOURS

STYLING

A Fox & Chave silk tie looks best tied in a classic Windsor or half-Windsor knot and worn with a collar style of your choosing.  Cutaway or spread collars offer the greatest opportunity to display the detail of your unique silk tie design. 


FABRIC

100% Silk Twill

DIMENSIONS

150 cm x 8 cm

RANGE

SIZE

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FINISH

Hand finished

CARE

Dry Clean Only

RETURNS

The Hub Marketing Services Ltd t/a Fox & Chave will provide refunds or exact replacement products for all valid returns. Returns must be requested via email from us at: enquiries@foxandchave.com within 28 days of product delivery. In your email request for a return please enter the word "return" in the subject field and include in the text of your message the following information:

 

1. Order number
2. Title and description of product being returned
3. Reason for return
4. Your name, daytime telephone number, and email address

 

Within 72 hours of receiving your request, The Fox & Chave website, will send return instructions to your email address along with any additional instructions. Items must be returned in the original packaging (or its equivalent).
Send any questions regarding returns via email to: enquiries@foxandchave.com

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