Gabriel von Max

Staarerückkehr

(Return of the Starlings),

oil on panel, circa 1900-15

 

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.



Gabriel von Max appears to be exploring here with his monkey subject a theme (perhaps metaphorical) that he explored earlier in his career when the subject was a beautiful woman in paintings such as Schwalbenruckkehr [Swallows Return].

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