Gabriel von Max

 

Das Liebesgeheimnis

(The Secret of Love)

oil on canvas, 1880

 

Gabriel von Max

"Das Liebesgeheimnis" ("The Love Secret" or "The Secret of Love"), also known as "Whispers of Anticipation"

1880                                           

 

oil on canvas

107 x 83,9 cm (40 x 33 in.)

                                        

signed lower left: "Gab.Max"



Provenance:


private collection, Berlin, by 1890


subsequently with Gallery Mayo (Robert B. Mayo), Richmond, Virginia


anonymous sale, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, November 22, 1994, lot 2903 (as "Whispers of Anticipation")


private collection, Boston area, Massachusetts

 

 

Publication History


John Denison Champlin, Jr., ed., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887), Vol. III, referenced as "Secret."


Nicolaus Mann, Gabriel Max, Eine kunsthistorische Skizze (Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber, second, expanded edition 1890), referenced and illustrated.


Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 4 volumes, Third, unchanged reprinting, (Hofheim am Taunus: H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1979) (initially Fr. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891–1901), here volume one, second half, no. 78 (referenced without illustration) (reports location as Berlin at that time).


Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst, Vol. 8 (Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1893), wood engraving.


Franz Hermann Meißner, "Gabriel Max," in Die Kunst unserer Zeit. Eine Chronik des modernen Kunstlebens (Munich 1899), Lieferung 2, pgs. 1-32, ill. pg. 19.



Contact:

Jack Daulton

The Daulton Collection

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