Gabriel von Max
"Staarerückkehr"
["Return of the Starlings"]
(Monkey Gazing Upward)
circa 1900-1915
oil on wood panel
30,3 x 23,8 cm (11 5/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
signed lower left: G. v. Max
inscribed lower right: Staarerückkehr
Catalogue Raisonné: Richter 393
Provenance:
Rudolf Bangel auction house, Frankfurt am Main, May 31, 1927. Gemälde Neuerer Meister Darunter eine Bekannte Privatsammlung und aus Verschiedenem Besitz, Katalog 1099, Lot No. 91, illustrated Tafel 9.
Galerie Konrad Bayer, Munich, from whom The Daulton Collection purchased the painting in 2009. Beginning in 2008, art dealer and connoisseur Konrad Bayer (1958-2023) offered and sold many outstanding Gabriel von Max works to The Daulton Collection. He will be missed. RIP.
Exhibition History:
2011 "Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 9-Oct. 30, 2011
"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. 393, at pg. 492 (not illustrated).
Aleš Filip and Roman Musil, eds., Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) (Prague: Arbor vitae, 2011), ill. 274, pg. 206.
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Gabriel von Max (Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2011), ill. 41, pg. 55.
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. 15.
