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1305

Max Klinger

Leipzig 1857 – 1920 Großjena bei Naumburg

”Pest”. 1903

Etching and drypoint on heavy Japan laid paper. 36,1 × 31,4 cm (61,8 × 46,8 cm) (14 ¼ × 12 ⅜ in. (24 ⅜ × 18 ⅜ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Klinger. ”Pest”. 1903.

Estimate:

EUR 800

 

- 1,000

Sold for:

5,588 EUR (incl. premium)

Timed Auctions 2026

Online Only Modern & Contemporary Art x Toni Garrn Foundation, 20.2.-8.3.26, Sunday, 08.03.2026

Information

Etching and drypoint on heavy Japan laid paper. 36,1 × 31,4 cm (61,8 × 46,8 cm) (14 ¼ × 12 ⅜ in. (24 ⅜ × 18 ⅜ in.)). Signed, inscribed as well as with the signature of the printer Otto Felsing. Lower left the collector's mark in purple of Dr. Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 1376a). Catalogue raisonné: Singer 234 II (of VI). Third of at least 7 proofs of the unfinished 2nd state of the edition published in 1904. Sheet 5 (of 12) from the set: Vom Tode, Zweiter Teil, Opus XIII.

Condition Report: Very fine, harmonious overall appearance. Good, strong print. The sheet edges without tears or losses. The paper in the plate with minor time staining. The lower left corner lightly bumped with a diagonal crease (3 cm). Along the left margin, in places slight pressure lines and irregularities in the paper. Above the edge of the plate on the right, one hairline printer ink mark (2,5 cm); in the margins, very isolated minuscule stains. On the reverse, at the centre of left edge, mounted with white paper strip onto the support cardboard; the same mounting at top and bottom of this same edge detached. There in the corners, also pinpoint traces of paper and adhesive residue from an older mounting

Walter Bauer, Fulda (thence by descent to the present owner) / formerly collection Dr. Heinrich Stinnes, Cologne

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