Gustav Klimt: Lady with a Muff
On June 27, 2014, the National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, will add to its permanent exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century International Art a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862鈥�1918), a key figure in the Vienna Secession. Klimt developed a distinctive style that captured the wholly original atmosphere of fin de si猫cle Vienna.
The female subject was central to the work of Klimt. He painted portraits of contemporary women with a mysterious, dreamy expression, but also with energy and a lust for life. The painting Lady with a Muff dating from 1916鈥�1917 is one such portrait. The coquettish way in which she obscures part of her face with the fur evokes Klimt鈥檚 earlier 1909 work Woman with Hat and Feather Boa (脰sterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna). However, the brightly coloured background of Lady with a Muff is different, emphasizing the colour and newly referencing inspiration found in Asian art. These Asian-influenced figures, reflecting Klimt鈥檚 interest as a collector of Japanese and Chinese art, may be found in other of his paintings such as The Polecat Fur (Der Iltispelz; private collection), which depicts another woman wrapped in a fur coat partly obscuring her face.
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On June 27, 2014, the National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, will add to its permanent exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century International Art a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862鈥�1918), a key figure in the Vienna Secession. Klimt developed a distinctive style that captured the wholly original atmosphere of fin de si猫cle Vienna.
The female subject was central to the work of Klimt. He painted portraits of contemporary women with a mysterious, dreamy expression, but also with energy and a lust for life. The painting Lady with a Muff dating from 1916鈥�1917 is one such portrait. The coquettish way in which she obscures part of her face with the fur evokes Klimt鈥檚 earlier 1909 work Woman with Hat and Feather Boa (脰sterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna). However, the brightly coloured background of Lady with a Muff is different, emphasizing the colour and newly referencing inspiration found in Asian art. These Asian-influenced figures, reflecting Klimt鈥檚 interest as a collector of Japanese and Chinese art, may be found in other of his paintings such as The Polecat Fur (Der Iltispelz; private collection), which depicts another woman wrapped in a fur coat partly obscuring her face.
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