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Klimt drew this standing woman in pencil around 1910, on a sheet 57 centimeters tall. The guide to MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 show describes Klimt’s figure drawings of the early 1900s as bare outlines without shading. The stamp at lower left reads “Gustav Klimt Nachlass”, meaning his estate; Lessing J. Rosenwald gave the drawing to the National Gallery in 1964.
graphite · overall: 57 x 37.5 cm · National Gallery of Art · Vienna Secession
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- Museum title
- Portrait of a Woman
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt Austrian, 1862 - 1918
- Date
- c. 1910
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- overall: 57 x 37.5 cm (22 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.