Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005866Seated Woman from the Front with Hat, Face Hooded
by Gustav Klimt
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "1910 / Klimt [in circle]"
Provenance
Private collection, Austria, by 1976 [Essen 1976 exh. cat.]. Private collection, Switzerland, to 1994 [according to Eberhard Kornfeld]. Sold by Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 24 June 1994, "150 ausgewählte Kunstwerke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts," no. 65, to Alice Adam, Chicago [according to Alice Adam]. Sold by Alice Adam Ltd. to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht, Chicago, 1994.
Exhibition history
Museum Folkwang Essen, "Gustav Klimt, Zeichnungen aus Albertina und Privatbesitz,” 30 January-14 March 1976, no. 74. The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2003 – Jan. 11, 2004, pp. 72–73, cat. 61 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013
Publications
Hans Hofstatter, Gustav Klimt: Erotic Drawings (New York, 1980), pl. 10 (ill.). Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912 (Salzburg, 1982), vol. 2, no. 2006 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Austria
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Gecht Family
- Accession no.
- 2015.260
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