"Traviata"
(Portrait of the courtesan Violetta from Verdi's opera La traviata [The Fallen Woman])
oil on canvas
1893
83,5 x 66,5 cm
signed
This beautiful painting is a portrait of the courtesan Violetta from Verdi's opera La traviata [The Fallen Woman], resting in her bed chamber as she suffers from tuberculosis that will ultimately take her life. Her tragic fate is symbolized by the moth (probably a death's-head hawkmoth) that von Max places conspicuously to her right, as well as by the disintegrating camellia and the timepiece that she holds.
Catalogue Raisonné: Richter 229
Provenance:
Sammlung [Collection] Heinrich Neumann, Munich
Auction of Sammlung Heinrich Neumann, Dorotheum, Vienna, 22-24 February 1904, Cat. Nr. 96
Auction, C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 17. November 1913, No. 84
Private collection, Vienna
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Exhibition History:
1893 Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens (A.V.) "Secession." This was the first exhibition of the Munich Secession (which actually took place in Berlin at the Landesausstellungsgebäude am Lehrter Bahnhof).
1893 H. L. Neumann, Munich, June 1893
1894 Akademischen Kunst-Ausstellung zu Dresden. This was the first exhibition of the Dresden Secession.
1895 "Sonderausstellung der neuester Gemälde von Prof. Gabriel Max in München," Österreichische Kunst-Verein (399 Ausstellung), Vienna, opened March 31, 1895
1896 Galerie Mikuláš (Nikolaus) Lehmann, Prague. (See Michal Šimek, "Gabriel Max a Praha" ["Gabriel Max and Prague"], thesis, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, 2009, pg. 83.)
1896 Kunstverein für Böhmen (Krasoumná jednota), Rudolfinum, Prague. See Šimek at pg. 85.
1897 "Second Annual Exhibition," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, November 4, 1897 - January 1, 1898.
1905 Kunstverein für Böhmen (Krasoumná jednota), Rudolfinum, Prague. See Šimek at pg. 85.
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Publication History:
Offizieller Katalog Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens (A.V.) "Secession" (Munich: A. Bruckmann's Verlag, 1893), referenced without illustration as catalogue no. 368 at pg. 22 and marked as "for sale."
Georg Fuchs, "Erste internationale Kunstausstellung des Vereins bildende Künstler, München, 'Secession'," Allegemeine Kunst-Chronik, VII, No. 21 (1893), pg. 600.
"Kunst und Kunstgewerbe," Illustrierte Zeitung, 100, No. 2605 (June 3, 1893), pg. 599 (reviewing the exhibition at H. L. Neumann's Kunstsalon in Munich and singling out "Traviata" for special mention, without illustration).
Illustrirter Katalog der Akademischen Kunst-Ausstellung zu Dresden (Dresden: C. C. Meinhold & Söhne, 1894), referenced without illustration as catalogue no. 274 at pg. 22 and marked as "for sale."
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 4 volumes, Third, unchanged reprinting, (Hofheim am Taunus: H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1979) (initially Fr. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891–1901), here volume one, second half, p. 99, no. 152 (referenced without illustration).
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. 229, at pgs. 451-452.
Michal Šimek, "Gabriel Max a Praha" ["Gabriel Max and Prague"], thesis, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, 2009, pg. 83 (referenced without illustration).
Aleš Filip and Roman Musil, eds., Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) (Plzni, Czech Republic: Arbor Vitae and Západoceská galerie v Plzni, 2011), p. 217, ill. 288.
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Contact:
Jack Daulton
The Daulton Collection
info@thedaultoncollection.com
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