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GUSTAV KLIMT Studie für den Mann des Sitzenden Menschenpaares.
Black conté crayon with white chalk heightening on buff paper, circa 1901-07. 394x314 mm; 15 1/2x12 3/8 inches. Ex-collection Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Published in Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, volume I, page 194, number 646 (illustration page 195).
This drawing is a study for the figure in the lower right corner of Klimt's Medizin, a ceiling painting originally commissioned by the University of Vienna that was destroyed in a fire in 1945 (Novotny/Dobai, number 112).
