Vintage Nude Figurative Sketch by Franz Von Stuck, Signed (Pencil on Paper)
Vintage Nude Figurative Sketch by Franz Von Stuck, Signed (Pencil on Paper). Figurative sketch of a seated woman. Signed in the lower right corner of the paper. Housed in a new white washed frame under glass. Archival matte. In good condition with wear consistent with age.
Size: 19.9 × 16.9 in
Provenance: Private Art Collection, NYC
Von Stuck (1863–1928) was educated in Munich at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, training in both fine and applied arts. He stepped away from his academic training, using a traditional style but portraying haunting, symbolic scenes relating to psychology, sexuality and spirituality. The female figure bound by a snake is a repeated motif, present in paintings like The Sin, 1893, now at the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Inferno, 1908, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and an oil version of the current lot, Die Sinnlichkeit, or The Sensuality sold Christie's, London, 2010. Scholars have debated the meaning behind the snake, which is cited as a reference to the temptation of Eve, evil's hold over mankind, or the concept of the femme fatale.
An October 6, 2014 Sotheby's auction note about the von Stuck subject: "With the bodies of Eve and the snake entwined, their cool skin in close contact, each empowers the other to brazenly confront the viewer. His representation of Eve as femme fatale could not be more different from the grief stricken and shamed figure depicted in Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden but is closer to his peer Max Klinger’s clever rendering of 'Eva und die Zukunft,' 1898, in which the snake holds a mirror for Eve, as if to reveal to her a truer self.... Stuck’s Eve, and by extension Stuck demands that the viewer complicate and question their conception of sin itself.
Vintage Nude Figurative Sketch by Franz Von Stuck, Signed (Pencil on Paper). Figurative sketch of a seated woman. Signed in the lower right corner of the paper. Housed in a new white washed frame under glass. Archival matte. In good condition with wear consistent with age.
Size: 19.9 × 16.9 in
Provenance: Private Art Collection, NYC
Von Stuck (1863–1928) was educated in Munich at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, training in both fine and applied arts. He stepped away from his academic training, using a traditional style but portraying haunting, symbolic scenes relating to psychology, sexuality and spirituality. The female figure bound by a snake is a repeated motif, present in paintings like The Sin, 1893, now at the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Inferno, 1908, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and an oil version of the current lot, Die Sinnlichkeit, or The Sensuality sold Christie's, London, 2010. Scholars have debated the meaning behind the snake, which is cited as a reference to the temptation of Eve, evil's hold over mankind, or the concept of the femme fatale.
An October 6, 2014 Sotheby's auction note about the von Stuck subject: "With the bodies of Eve and the snake entwined, their cool skin in close contact, each empowers the other to brazenly confront the viewer. His representation of Eve as femme fatale could not be more different from the grief stricken and shamed figure depicted in Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden but is closer to his peer Max Klinger’s clever rendering of 'Eva und die Zukunft,' 1898, in which the snake holds a mirror for Eve, as if to reveal to her a truer self.... Stuck’s Eve, and by extension Stuck demands that the viewer complicate and question their conception of sin itself.
Vintage Nude Figurative Sketch by Franz Von Stuck, Signed (Pencil on Paper). Figurative sketch of a seated woman. Signed in the lower right corner of the paper. Housed in a new white washed frame under glass. Archival matte. In good condition with wear consistent with age.
Size: 19.9 × 16.9 in
Provenance: Private Art Collection, NYC
Von Stuck (1863–1928) was educated in Munich at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, training in both fine and applied arts. He stepped away from his academic training, using a traditional style but portraying haunting, symbolic scenes relating to psychology, sexuality and spirituality. The female figure bound by a snake is a repeated motif, present in paintings like The Sin, 1893, now at the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Inferno, 1908, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and an oil version of the current lot, Die Sinnlichkeit, or The Sensuality sold Christie's, London, 2010. Scholars have debated the meaning behind the snake, which is cited as a reference to the temptation of Eve, evil's hold over mankind, or the concept of the femme fatale.
An October 6, 2014 Sotheby's auction note about the von Stuck subject: "With the bodies of Eve and the snake entwined, their cool skin in close contact, each empowers the other to brazenly confront the viewer. His representation of Eve as femme fatale could not be more different from the grief stricken and shamed figure depicted in Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden but is closer to his peer Max Klinger’s clever rendering of 'Eva und die Zukunft,' 1898, in which the snake holds a mirror for Eve, as if to reveal to her a truer self.... Stuck’s Eve, and by extension Stuck demands that the viewer complicate and question their conception of sin itself.