Tilla Durieux as Circe
In dark blue robe and holding a bowl with outstretched hand;
signed lower left: FRANZ/VON/STUCK/TILLA DURIEUX/AIS/CIRCE On the decorative frame: white label "Kunsthaus Zürich, Heimplatz I, CH 8001 Zürich/ Zweck: Ausstellung MALEREI UND PHOTOGRAPHIE IM DIALOG 12.5. - 24.7.77 / Künstler: Franz von Stuck / Titel: Tilla Durieux als Circe um 1912 / Besitzer: Nationalgalerie Berlin" (exhibition label Kunsthaus Zürich); in blue tyre chalk "11370" (Mü-No.); black pencil "K 1613" (Kremsmünster no.); yellowed label, printed on it glasses-like ornamental frame and "Hans Irlbacher / Bildhauer u. Vergolder / München, Schwindstr.8"; long, narrow label in gold, handwritten on it "FRANZ VON STUCK - 1863-1928 TILLA DURIEUX ALS >>CIRCE<< - UM 1912"; brown pen, illegible (probably "Dietrich"); white label of Schenker Eurocargo; with yellow tyre chalk "230" (lot number auction H. W. Lange on 16.4.1943); yellowed label, printed with a spectacle-like ornamental frame and "Hans Irlbacher / Bildhauer u. Vergolder / München, Schwindstr. 8"
On the image carrier: faded stamp, illegible (stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany); black pen "K 1613" (Kremsmünster no.); white label (Inventar Nationalgalerie Berlin); white label with perforated border in blue "2819" (Linz no.); black stamp "Gebr. Oberndorfer / Kunsttischlerei / I. Spezialhaus in Malbretter - / Ausstellungsrahmen / MÜNCHEN II:"
The "Kl. Etikett: 230" noted on the property card of the CCP Munich has not survived on the object.
(...) Unresolved
30.01.1917: Auction at Rudolf Bangel, Frankfurt am Main, lot number 234a. Probably sold for 7000 Marks
1917 - 1943 Unresolved
16./17.4.1943: Auction at H. W. Lange, Berlin, lot number 230.
From 16./17.4.1943: German Reich ("Sonderauftrag Linz"), purchase through Maria Almas-Dietrich, Munich for RM 10.000
22 October 1945-10 June 1949: American Military Government, Central Collecting Point, Munich, seizure
10 June 1949-22 February 1952: Minister-President of Bavaria, Munich, taken over in trust by American military government
Since 22 February 1952: Federal Republic of Germany, initially held in trust, 1969 takeover from former Reich assets
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