Klimt, Study for The Three Gorgons.
Klimt/Schiele: Royal Academy shows drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
By James Brewer
Even in sketched outline they are seductive: three turn-of-the-century drawings of the Gorgons, who in versions of the Greek myth are the beautiful but dangerous daughters of the sea god Phorcys. They were drawn in black chalk on packing paper in 1901 by Gustav Klimt as he worked on the Beethoven Frieze which was central to the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition in...