Gabriel von Max

 

      Model Laura

     circa 1913

       oil on canvas

       

 
Gabriel von Max
"Model Laura"
oil on canvas
circa 1913
34 x 25,4 cm
signed lower right: "G v Max"
inscribed upper left: "Modell Laura"

Catalogue Raisonné: Richter 376


Provenance:

Gustav Seidenader Kunst-Salon, Munich, 1913.  Gabriel von Max delivered "Model Laura" to the Gustav Seidenader Kunst-Salon in Munich on April 1, 1913; von Max was paid 600 Marks.

auction at Hugo Helbing, Munich, on January 29, 1929.  Ölgemälde/ Aquarelle und Handzeichnungen Moderner Meister aus Mitteldeutschem und Münchener Besitze, lot no. 90 (illustrated).


Exhibition History:

"Les origines du monde.  L'invention de la nature au XIXe siècle" ["The Origins of the World. The Invention of Nature in the 19th Century"], Musée d'Orsay, Paris, May 19, 2021 -- July 18, 2021

"The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives," Stanford University, California, Hohbach Hall, Green Library, January 9, 2024 - June 21, 2024


Publication History:

Margaret Mary Richter, Gabriel Max: The Artist, The Darwinist and The Spiritualist, PhD dissertation, New York University, 1998 (Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1998), cat. no. 376, at pgs. 487-488 (not illustrated).

Laura Bossi, ed., Les Origines du Monde: L'invention de la Nature au XIXe Siecle (Paris: Musée d’Orsay / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal / Muséum national d’histoire naturelle / Gallimard, 2020) (exhibition catalogue) (editions in French and in English), pg. 363 (catalogued, not illustrated).

Jessica Riskin and Caroline Winterer, The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives (Stanford, California: Silicon Valley Archives/Stanford University Libraries, 2024), ill. at pg. 13.

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