About This Artwork
Gustav Klimt
Austrian, 1862-1918
Portrait of a Lady in a High Hatn.d.
Graphite on cream wove Japanese paper (Japanese vellum)
560 x 372 mm
Stamped, lower left: "Gustav Klimt Nachlass"
Wentworth Greene Field Fund, 1962.794
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Bern, Gutekunst and Klipstein, "Gustav Klimt," November 30, 1957-January 4, 1958, cat. 31.
New York, Este Gallery, 1962, cat. 55.
Publication History
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnung 1904-1912 (Salzburg, 1982), no. 1927 (ill.).
Ownership History
Estate of the artist, from 1918 [Lugt 1575]; sold to Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Vienna [according to a letter from Christine Stauffer of Galerie Kornfeld of January 8, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, by November 1957 [Bern 1957; letters from Dr. Eberhard Kornfeld of March 7, 2003 and Christine Stauffer in curatorial file]. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.