Meerweibchen. Um 1891.
Oil on cardboard.
Cf. Voss 38. Bottom right signed. 20.3 x 68.5 cm (7.9 x 26.9 in).
In original frame from Gebrüder Oberndorfer, Munich.
• Rare and unusually elongated format, that Stuck used to approach the reclined body.
• In this work Stuck attains an expressive compositional solution for the fascinating relation between man and woman, which is of key relevance in Stuck's creation.
• From the group of motifs of mermaids and fauns, which Stuck and other important artists of Symbolism were intensively occupied with.
• The study-like, free character makes the artist's work method particularly comprehensible.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (for ca. 20 years).