Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Studie für den Mann des sitzenden Menschenpaares

Details

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Studie für den Mann des sitzenden Menschenpaares
black Conté crayon heightened with white chalk on buff paper
15½ x 12 3/8 in. (39.4 x 31.4 cm.)
Drawn circa 1901-1907

Provenance

Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965.

Literature

A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, vol. I, p. 194, no. 646 (illustrated, p. 195).

Lot Essay

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 eventually was destroyed in a fire in 1945 (Novotny and Dobai, no. 112)

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