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Follow the wavy lines of her hair down the right side of the sheet, and compare them with the smooth, closed curves of her eyelids.
A young woman lets her head fall to one side, eyes closed, her long hair running down past her shoulders. Klimt drew her in pencil, and the Met dates the sheet to 1918, the year he died. Sir John Pope-Hennessy gave the drawing to the Met in 1982.
Graphite. · 22 3/8 x 14 11/16 in. (56.9 x 37.3 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Vienna Secession
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- Museum title
- Half-figure of a Young Woman
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (Austrian, Baumgarten 1862–1918 Vienna)
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- Graphite.
- Dimensions
- 22 3/8 x 14 11/16 in. (56.9 x 37.3 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1982
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.