Max Klinger (1857-1920)
Self-Portrait with Glasses, in half-right profile
[Selbstbildnis mit Brille, nach halbrechts]
1909
etching with plate tone on laid paper with watermark with initial "T"
22 x 16,7 cm (plate); 32,3 x 21,1 (sheet)
proof impression of the first state of two
signed in pencil lower center: "M. Klinger".
dated by the artist in pencil lower right: "11.10.09"
The Daulton Collection
Catalogue Raisonné: Beyer 398 I. Carl Beyer, Max Klinger, Das Graphische Werk, 1909-1919 (Leipzig, 1930) [Carl Beyer, Max Klinger, The Graphic Work, 1909-1919, English trans. Bernd K. Estabrook (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997)].
Provenance:
Collection Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862-1924), Vienna (verso with stamp "Gottfried Eissler"). Dr. Eissler and his brother, entrepreneur Hermann Eissler, were important Viennese art collectors in the first quarter of the 20th century. After Dr. Eissler's death in 1924, his art collection was sold at auction the following year at C. J. Wawra in Vienna. C. J. Wawra, Nachlass Gottfried Eissler: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Miniaturen, Plaketten, Silber, Keramik etc. (Wien, May 6-7, 1925).
Condition: tanned and slightly foxed as well as slightly mat-burned; margins with slight defects; verso with dry adhesive track.
