Action (Handlung), 1878/1880

Not on View

series Title

A Glove (Ein Handschuh), Opus VI: pl. 2

Medium

etching in black on chine collé

Dimensions

plate: 29.9 x 21 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 53.9 x 34.8 cm (21 1/4 x 13 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

Singer 1909, no. 114, State i/vi (proof)

Accession Number

1995.82.2

Artists / Makers

Max Klinger (artist) German, 1857 - 1920

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left to lower center below image in graphite: Préambule II. "Sachverhalt" (the state of things); lower left below plate mark in graphite: Oeuvre 6 Un Gant no. II.; upper right above image in plate: II.

Provenance

Carus Gallery, New York; private collection; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Carus Gallery, Inc.

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1909: Singer, Hans Wolfgang. Max Klingers Radierungen, Stiche und Steindrucke. Berlin, 1909 (republished 1978 by Martin Gordon, New York).

1977: Varnedoe, J. Kirk T. with Elizabeth Streicher. Graphic Works of Max Klinger. New York, 1977: 80-81 (Postscript to A Glove).

1984: Carey, Frances and Antony Griffiths. The Print in Germany 1880-1933: The Age of Expressionism. London and New York, 1984: 44.