Gabriel von Max
Studies of a Monkey (Affenstudien)
pencil on paper
c. 1900-1915
Provenance:
Estate (Nachlass) of the Artist
Galerie Konrad Bayer, Munich, from whom The Daulton Collection acquired the drawing
Exhibition History:
"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:
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. 18.
The subject of this sheet of monkey studies appears to be Gabriel von Max's favorite monkey, the capuchin monkey named Paly. See photographs of Paly in the Lenbachhaus exhibition catalogue, ills. 316-324.
