The Virgin by Gustav Klimt Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm These drawings operate as pure

These drawings operate as pure architectural imagination: bold geometric masses stack and cantilever in compositions that feel both structurally logical and entirely fantastical

Biomorphic forms — spirals

it sits in the intersection of science

and the careful observation of how willow actually grows

The Virgin by Gustav Klimt Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm These drawings operate as purePainted between 1912 and 1913, Klimt's The Virgin gathers seven female figures into a swirling dreamscape of pattern, colour, and symbol. The sleeping maiden at the centre is surrounded by companions in varying states of wakefulness and reverie, their bodies and garments dissolving into a dense field of decorative motif spirals, florals, geometric forms rendered in jewel toned gouache over oil. The composition circles inward with an almost hypnotic