Sale: 446 / Art of the 19th Century, May 24. 2017 in Munich Lot 165

 

165
Franz von Stuck
Es war einmal, 1891.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 70,000 / $ 75,600

(incl. surcharge)
Es war einmal. 1891.
Oil on panel, prtly cradled.
Voss 48. Lower right signed. 50.3 x 47 cm (19.8 x 18.5 in).
Verso with number and collector's stamp. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Collection Arthur von Franquet (1854-1931), Brunswick (verso with stamp). After his death passed on to his nephew Herbert von Franquet.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Selection (for more lit. see catalog raisonné Voss):
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Dresden 1891-1901 (reprint 1969), vol. II.2, p. 859, no. 18 (there with ownership note "Baron Eugen Franquet, Berlin").
Eugen von Franquet: Schaupöbel. Stuck, Klinger, Exter, von Hofmann etc. "Die zukünftigen Heroen der Rumpelkammer". Glossen zum Streit der Alten und Jungen, Published by Max Spohr, Leipzig 1893, pp. 7f.
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Franz von Stuck. Künstler Monographien, vol. XLII, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1899, illu. 40 (p. 39).
Franz Hermann Meißner, Franz von Stuck, Berlin and Leipzig 1899, p. 73 (no illu.).
Die Kunst für Alle, XVIII. year 1902/03, p. 292 (no illu.).
Franz von Stuck. Das Gesamtwerk, preface by Fritz von Ostini, Munich 1909, illu. on p. 30.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben, Frankfurt am Main 1950, Prosa I, 1956, p. 172.




165
Franz von Stuck
Es war einmal, 1891.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 70,000 / $ 75,600

(incl. surcharge)