Max Slevogt
Marietta tanzend im Raum
1904
Oil on artist's board. 34/34.8 x 47.6/48 cm. Framed. Signed and dated 'M. Slevogt 1904' lower left in brown.
This is one of the preparatory oil studies Max Slevogt produced for the life-size painting “Portrait of the Dancer Marietta di Rigardo" (Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden State Art Collections). The Filipino flamenco dancer Marietta di Rigardo (real name Maria Trinidad de la Rosa, 1880-1966), was first married to the writer and composer Georg David Schulz, and performed in his Berlin cabaret “Zum siebten Himmel” in 1904. She was married to the Bavarian writer Ludwig Thoma from 1907-1911 when she changed her name to Marion Thoma.
Catalogue Raisonné
Imiela p. 374, annot. 26
Certificate
We would like to thank Bernhard Geil for additional information.
We would like to thank Karoline Feulner, Max Slevogt-Forschungszentrum, GDKE, Landesmuseum Mainz and Nicole Hartje-Grave, Cologne, for additional information.
Provenance
Hermann Ball/Paul Graupe, Berlin, Versteigerung XVI, Gemälde und Plastiken neuerer Meister aus zwei Berliner Privatsammlungen, 21 March 1932, Lot 59; Private property, North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature
Cf. the portrait of Marietta di Rigardo and its preparatory studies, i.a.: Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Max Slevogt. Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, p. 83f.; Ernst-Gerhard Güse et.al. (ed.), Max Slevogt. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, exhib. cat. Saarland Museum Saarbrückem/Landesmuseum Mainz 1992, p. 442, Anm. 61 and 62; Ingrid Mössinger (ed.), Max Slevogt - Malerei und Grafik, exhib. cat. Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz 2011, p. 34
Exhibitions
Berlin 1918, Max Slevogt. Ausstellung zum 50. Geburtstag des Künstlers, veranstaltet von der Freien Secession und Paul Cassirer, p. 20, cat.no. 56; Edenkoben 2007 (Max Slevogt-Galerie, Schloss "Villa Ludwigshöhe"), Tänzerinnen um Slevogt, p. 69 with illus