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Look for the faint blue and red lines inside the gray loops of the skirt, then find the two dark, hatched shapes at left and right that hold the swirl in place.
A seated woman hides her face under a huge hat, so the drawing is about the hat, the dress and the hands more than the face. Klimt dated it 1910 and signed it at lower left, his name inside a circle, and added touches of colored pencil to the gray graphite. The Art Institute of Chicago showed it in 2013 in its exhibition Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy.
Graphite, with colored pencil, on ivory wove paper · 55.7 × 37.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Vienna Secession
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- Museum title
- Seated Woman from the Front with Hat, Face Hooded
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt Austrian, 1862-1918
- Date
- 1910
- Medium
- Graphite, with colored pencil, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 55.7 × 37.2 cm (21 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Gecht Family
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.