Gabriel von Max
"The Phantom Katie King"
1897 or earlier
oil on canvas
44 x 37 cm
framed dimensions: 56,3 x 49,3 cm
relined
Signed upper left: G. Max
Titled upper right: Phantom Katie King
Catalogue Raisonné: Richter 460
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. 460, at pg. 512 (not illustrated).
Provenance:
1897 Galerie Heinemann, Munich
1897-- ? G. W. Grommé (1836-1901), Bremen (a merchant/businessman in St. Petersburg and Bremen)
1982 Galerie Koller, Zurich, auction, November 12, 1982, no. 5212
Publications:
Michelle Foot, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art: Scots, Spirits and Séances, 1860-1940 (forthcoming).
