
Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
The Valkyrie
Auction Closed
February 5, 09:31 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
Hans Makart
Austrian 1840 - 1884
The Valkyrie
signed lower right: Hans Makart
oil on panel
panel: 51 ½ by 33 in.; 130.8 by 83.8 cm
framed: 57 ¾ by 40 ½ in.; 146.7 by 102.9 cm
Enea Graziosa Lanfranconi, Pressburg;
His estate sale, J. M. Heberle (H . Lempert z Sonne), Cologne, 21-23 October 1895, lot 105 (as Portrait of the Baroness von Teschenberg);
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 12 October 1965, lot 55 (as Frauenbildnis in heroischer Manier);
Kunsthandlung Karl Löscher/Anton Jancsy, Vienna, 25 July 1966;
From whom acquired by John and Johanna Bass, New York;
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, after 1979.
Vienna, Osterreichischer Kunstverein, October 1876, no. 34 (possibly)
Vienna, Osterreichischer Kunstverein, May-June 1877, no. 8 (possibly)
Vienna, Osterreichischer Kunstverein, April 1878, no. 1 (possibly)
Vienna, International Kunstausstellung, 1882 (possibly)
Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, April 1979
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Edith C. Blum Art Institute of Bard College (in cooperation with the Du Pre Art Gallery of Hope College; IBM Gallery of Science and Art; Bass Museum of Art), Pre-Modern Art of Vienna: 1848-1898, 1987-88
E. Ranzoni, Hans Makarts Werke, Vienna 1884, plate 53.
C. Cook, “Hans Makart; German Art,”Art and Artists of Our Time, vol. IV., New York 1885, pp. 177-178, illustrated (as Brunhilde).
A. Tizia Leitich, Verklungenes Wien, Vienna 1942, p. 103, illustrated (as Brunhilde).
E. Pirchan, Hans Makart. Life, Works and Times, Vienna 1954, plate 52 (as Die Walküre).
The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Miami 1973, cat. no. 1.
G. Frodl, Hans Makart, Monograph and catalogue raisonné, Salzburg 1974, p. 362, no. 293 illustrated.
G. Frodl, Hans Makart Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna 2013, p. 198, no. 345, illustrated (as Die Walküre, vor Mai 1877).
M. Russell,Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, Miami Beach 1990, pp. 124-125, illustrated.