Sale: 427 / Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century, Nov. 20. 2015 in Munich Lot 181


181
Franz von Stuck
Neckerei, 1889.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 55,000
Sold:
€ 118,750 / $ 130,625

(incl. surcharge)
Neckerei. 1889.
Oil on canvas.
Voss 13/205. Signed and inscribed "MÜNCHEN" lower right. 47 x 49.5 cm (18.5 x 19.4 in).
In original artist frame. [CB].

With a synopsis by Dr. Christoph Andreas (Galerie J.P. Schneider jr.), Frankfurt am Main, from 21 September, 1990 (in copy).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Heinemann, Munich (Heinemann no. 9650, receipt 11 Februar, 1909).
Hugo Reisinger, New York (acquired from Heinemann on 20 August, 1909).
Private collection.
Galerie J.P. Schneider jr., Frankfurt am Main, 1990 (verso with gallery stamp on stretcher).
Private collection Hesse.

EXHIBITION: Münchener Jahresausstellung von Kunstwerken aller Nationen im königlichen Glaspalaste, 1890, cat. no. 1243.
Stuck Exhibition, Galerie Heinemann, Munich, 29 March - 4 April, 1909, cat. no. 16.

LITERATURE: selection:
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Franz von Stuck. Künstler Monographien, vol. XLII, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1899, illu. 42 (p. 41).
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Dresden 1891-1901 (reprint 1969), 2nd volume, no. 7.
Die graphischen Künste, released by Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, XXVI year, vol. 26, Vienna 1903, illu. on p. 30.
Franz von Stuck. Das Gesamtwerk, preface by Fritz von Ostini, Munich 1909, illu. on p. 35.
Anton Sailer, Franz von Stuck. Ein Lebensmärchen, Munich 1969, p. 14.

In 1889, the year of his first bigger success, the painting "Neckerei" was made. It was the first work with faun and nymph, lovingly chasing one another in a sparse forest. From this point on the theme would occupy a central position in Stuck's oeuvre, finding realization in many variations. This composition shows both the influence of plein-air painting in the manner of the School of Barbizon as well as references to Arnold Böcklin. A smaller preliminary study was made in preparation of the painting the same year (cf . Voss 12/204).



181
Franz von Stuck
Neckerei, 1889.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 55,000
Sold:
€ 118,750 / $ 130,625

(incl. surcharge)