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# Mäda Primavesi

Gustav Klimt, 1912–13. Vienna, Austria.

Thirty works are on view at a time, ten to a room. Every day at midnight UTC, the ten that have hung longest go back into storage and ten others come out, so each work hangs for three days and then rests for three. A work always returns to the same place on the same wall.

[![A young girl in a white dress stands confidently with feet apart and hands behind her back, against a bright lilac background of flowers and a colorful patterned floor.](https://othermindset.com/assets/museum/mada-primavesi-full-02d406ac.jpg)](https://othermindset.com/assets/museum/mada-primavesi-full-02d406ac.jpg)

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Mäda Primavesi was about nine years old when Klimt painted her. She stands in a white dress, feet planted apart and hands behind her back, looking straight out at us with total confidence. Around her the background explodes into color: a lilac wall scattered with small flowers, and a floor patterned with pink, green and blue shapes. Klimt usually painted grand ladies in jewel-like settings, and he gives this girl the same importance. She clearly has opinions of her own. Even more than a hundred years later, it’s hard not to feel that she has just walked in and taken charge of the room.

## Look closely

1.  Look at how she is standing. What does it tell you about her?
2.  Find the flowers in the background and on her dress.
3.  Look at the floor at her feet. What shapes and colors do you see?

## While you sit

*A child who knows exactly who she is. Let a little of that steadiness find its way to you.*

Your seat in the galleries: a playful bench of lilac and pink cushioned cubes.

[Sit with it in the galleries →](https://othermindset.com/museum#work-mada-primavesi)

## About the work

Title

Mäda Primavesi

Artist

Gustav Klimt

Date

1912–13

From

Vienna, Austria

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

59 x 43 1/2 in. (149.9 x 110.5 cm)

Rights

Public domain

Image

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)

Record

[The museum's page for this work](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436819)

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