Max Slevogt Lot n° 153

Max Slevogt Portrait of a Lady Around 1893 Oil on canvas, relined 86.5 x 71 cm Framed. Lower left hardly legible monogrammed in brown 'MS.' Inscribed in black on the lower stretcher bar "MAX SLEVOGT 13 BERLIN 1918". - The oval border somewhat rubbed with partial loss of colour due to framing. Not at Imiela We thank Sigrun Paas, Heidelberg, and Bernhard Geil as well as Nicole Hartje-Grave, Cologne, and Karoline Feulner, Landesmuseum Mainz, for confirming and supplementary information. Provenance Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau (frame label on the reverse); Rolf Deyhle Collection, Stuttgart (1985-2003; frame label on the reverse); private property Brandenburg Exhibitions Probably Berlin 1918 (Freie Secession and Paul Cassirer), Max Slevogt. Exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 50th birthday, cat. No. 13 ("Portrait of a Lady. 1893. Height 80 cm, width 65 cm. For sale"); Kloster Cismar/Emden/Mainz/Halle/Stuttgart 1992-1994 (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum/Kunsthalle/Landesmuseum/Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg/Städtische Galerie), Robert Breyer und die Berliner Secession. The Rolf Deyhle Collection, Cat. No. 31 with color ill.