Seating Old Woman

Klimt was a prolific draughtsman, producing many works of great fluency. Several thousand surviving drawings reveal him as one of the outstanding draughtsmen of his time, his extreme refinement of line contrasting on occasion with great nervous intensity. His preferred media were pencil and black chalk and, less frequently, pen and ink, crayon or coloured chalks.

The vast majority of his drawings depict the human figure. He once remarked that his main interest in life was ‘other people, above all females’.