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

thedaultoncollection@outlook.com