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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR59.34
People
Gustav Klimt, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1862 - 1918 Vienna, Austria)
Title
Lady with a Fan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1908
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223259

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on brown wove paper
Dimensions
45.6 × 31.5 cm (17 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
framed: 61.3 × 51.1 × 2.5 cm (24 1/8 × 20 1/8 × 1 in.)
mat: 58.4 × 48.3 cm (23 × 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: recto, b.r., red ink: GUSTAV // KLIMT // NACHLASS
  • inscription: verso, b.l., graphite: K 195 // 2 [circled]
  • inscription: verso, b.r., graphite: 2 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Louis W. Black
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
BR59.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jane Kallir, Gustav Klimt Egon Schiele, exh. cat., Galerie St. Etienne and Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1980), p. 91, no. 19
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 134, repr.
  • Otto Kallir, Jane Kallir, Hans Bisanz, and Hildegard Bachert, Otto Kallir-Nirenstein: Ein Wegbereiter österreichischer Kunst, exh. cat., Historiches Museum der Stadt Wien (Vienna, 1986), p. 62, cat. 136
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 74, ill.
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 180

Exhibition History

  • Austrian Art between 1890 & World War I, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 04/14/1977 - 05/22/1977
  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982
  • Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992
  • “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/03/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2014 - 02/13/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024
  • Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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