Gabriel von Max
Purgatory (Fegefeuer)
(or Cleansing Fire)
oil on canvas
circa 1885
17 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. (45 x 36,5 cm)
signed upper right: G. Max
inscribed upper left: Fegfeur [sic]
Conserved by Andrea Rothe (formerly, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Getty Museum) and Jeanne McKee-Rothe (formerly, Conservator, Norton Simon Museum).
Provenance:
Muse XX Fine Art, USA, 2008
Publication History:
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Gabriel von Max (Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2011), ill. 14, pg. 29.
Exhibition History:
2011 "Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 9-Oct. 30, 2011
