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Gustav Klimt, Seated Woman chalk on paper, 17 5/8 in. X 12 3/8 in. , Gustav Klimt, a leading artist in fin de siecle Vienna, prepared his portrait paintings of women of society, often friends and fellow artists, with numerous quick sketches. Typically they rapidly outlined the fashionable clothes of the sitters. This sheet focuses on establishing a neckline, a cascade of ruffles, and a voluminous skirt that completely obscures the woman's legs. The blue pencil lines fill the paper from top to bottom, noting the proportions of the head on the elongated neck, upper and lower body, without indicating any details or even acknowledging the furniture that supports this figure in profile. Similarities in facial features and fashion, but not posture, relate this drawing to Klimt's Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich and to preparatory studies at the Albertina, Vienna.. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty