Max Klinger (1857-1920)
"Der Tod als Heiland" ["Death as Saviour"]
1889
etching and aquatint on sturdy Japan paper
24,5 x 31 cm (plate); 60 x 44,5 cm (sheet)
9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (plate)
trial proof of the fifth state of ten, the completed print before steel-facing of the plates
signed and dated in pencil lower left: "M. Klinger. 12 Marz 89".
inscribed by the artist in pencil lower right: "No. 9"
the ninth impression of twenty in the first edition
The Daulton Collection
Singer (catalogue raisonne) 180 V
Plate X from Klinger's Vom Tode, Erster Teil cycle [On Death, Part I].
This print is the ninth impression of the fifth state. The fifth state of this print is part of the first edition of the Vom Tode, Erster Teil cycle, which consisted of twenty signed trial proofs, including the present copy.
Provenance: Maximilian (Max) Morgenstern (1883-1946) and his wife Hertha Morgenstern nee Israel (1900-1962), Vienna, who acquired the print directly from the artist, thence by descent in the familly until acquired by The Daulton Collection.
Condition: with full margins, in good condition, pale paper discoloration, very pale scattered foxing, a diagonal crease along lower sheet edge, the upper left tip of sheet folded, remnants of previous hinging along right sheet edge verso
