The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Hermine Gallia
c. 1904
Location: not on view
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This drawing is one of about 40 drawings made by Gustav Klimt for his painted portrait of Hermine Gallia.Description
Gustav Klimt created this drawing in preparation for a painted portrait, now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. Both depict Hermine Gallia, née Hamburger, who belonged to a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna. Through vanguard circles in the city, she met the artist and commissioned a canvas of her own likeness. This sheet may have been drawn from life, given its loose and sketchlike facture, seemingly meant to quickly record Gallia's form on the elaborate white dress in which she posed.- ?-?(private dealer, Munich, sold to Mr. Henry H. Hawley)?-1972Mr. Henry H. Hawley [1934-2019], Chagrin Falls, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1972-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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