Max Klinger (1857-1920)
"The New Salome" ("Die neue Salome")
bronze, on a black marble base
1900
Height, excluding base: 24,2 cm (base height 7 cm)
signed in the bronze cast: "M. Klinger fec."
foundry mark: "AKT. GES. vorm GLADENBECK & Sohn"
numbered 12
The present statue is Klinger's copy in bronze, on a lesser scale, of his first polylitic marble statue now in the Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig. There were four versions in bronze, of which this is one.
