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Collections

Gustav Klimt
Seated Woman with Hat and Veil1897

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorDanse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Loose graphite pencil drawing on honey-yellow paper of a seated figure in profile with an elaborate upswept hairstyle, gestural and lightly sketched

Gustav Klimt, Seated Woman with Hat and Veil, 1897, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Kallir Family, Photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York

Artist or Maker
Gustav Klimt
Austria, 1862-1918
Title
Seated Woman with Hat and Veil
Date Made
1897
Medium
Pencil on brownish paper
Dimensions
Mat: 28 × 21 3/4 in. (71.12 × 55.25 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (45.09 × 31.43 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kallir Family
Accession Number
M.2025.10.3
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance

The artist (1862–1918). Vita Künstler, Vienna (1900–2001); John Kallir (1923–2022), New York, 1979; by descent to the Kallir Family Foundation, New York, 2022; given in 2025 to LACMA.

Copyright
photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York