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Currently not on display

Max Klinger

Leipzig, 1857 - Großjena, nr Naumburg, 1920

<A Glove>: Action

Date 1881
Materials and Techniques etching
Size(cm) 24.7 x 18.9 (image); 29.9 x 20.9 (plate)
State Friedrich Felsing, Munich and published by the artist, No. 6 of the 1st edition (25 copies)
Inscriptions Inscribed in plate, margin upper right: II.
Standard ref. Klinger Op. VI; Singer 114 II
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1982-0023

Provenance

Carl Otto Beyer, Leipzig; C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf; Purchased by the NMWA, 1982.

Exhibition History

1988
Max Klinger: Werke aus dem Besitz des Museums der bildenden Künste Leipzig und des Nationalmuseums für Westliche Kunst, Tokyo (Max Klinger: from Leipzig Art Museum and National Museum of Western Art), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 April 1988 - 19 June 1988, cat. no. 35-b
1992
Adam & Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 10 October 1992 - 6 December 1992, cat. no. 59-2
2014
Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 8 April 2014 - 15 June 2014, cat. no. 1

Bibliography

1977
Max Klinger (exh. cat.). Gaehtgens, Thomas W.; Pauseback, Michael, eds. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 10 October - 11 November 1976; Universitätskunstsammlung Göttingen, 14 January - 27 February 1977; Kunsthalle Tübingen, 26 March - 24 April 1977; Museum Wiesbaden, 14 June -31 July 1977. [1977], cat. no. 38.
1981
Max Klinger (exh. cat.). 5 - 29 March 1981. Sapporo, Museum für moderne Kunst, Hokkaido, 1981, cat. no. 24
1984
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 17 (1982), 1984, Arikawa, Haruo. On the New Acquisitions 1982. pp. 28-33, Catalogue of the New Acquisition 1982. pp. 18-19, repr.
1992
Max Klinger, 1857-1920: ein Handschuh, Traum und künstlerische Wirklichkeit (exh. cat.). Gallwitz, Klaus; Stuffmann, Margret, eds. Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 13 February - 8 June; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 26 June - 16 August 1992. Frankfurt am Main, Die Galerie, 1992, p. 14, no. 2a.

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