Mädchenakt mit langen Haaren und nach vorn gebeugtem Oberkörper

Klimt usually worked in seclusion and spent many hours each day drawing. The critic Franz Servaes, who observed the artist at work, wrote, "Here he was, surrounded by enigmatic naked women who, as he stood silently before his easel, would stroll up and down in his workshop, stretch and laze about, casting their radiance on the daylight hours--ever ready to obediently hold a pose at a nod from the master, as soon as he espied some posture, some movement that appealed to his aesthetic sense which he wanted to record in a quick sketch" (quoted in M. Bisanz-Prakken, "Gustav Klimt's Drawings," Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making, exh. cat., The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2001, p. 143).