Seated Nude Woman Beckoning a Dancing Phallus

Klinger, Max
Seated Nude Woman Beckoning a Dancing Phallus

1882
Pen and black ink and brush on paper
30.6 : 18.7 cm (mount cut-out)
Signed lower left with initials MK and dated 2. Nov. 1882
In the original mount of the Georg Hirzel Collection

Provenance:
– Georg Hirzel Collection, Leipzig
– Seized from Georg Hirzel’s heirs, later given to the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
– Restituted to the Hirzel family
– Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Sale 30, 4 June 1993, lot 46
– Private Collection

Exhibitions:
– ‘Max Klinger 1857-1920’, Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut 1992, p. 299, No. 85
– ‘Heinrich Kley, Meister der Zeichenfeder im Kontext seiner Zeit’, Munich, Museum Villa Stuck and Hanover, Wilhelm-Busch-Museum 2011, p. 124, No. 54
– Klinger 2020, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, March 6th – August 16th 2020

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