LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
52.05 in. (132.20 cm.) (height) by 43.50 in. (110.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
Signed 'Slevogt' in blue lower right; upper right margin additionally inscribed and dated in two lines in Japanese by Sadayakko with black brush: "Meiji 34 nen 12 gatsu muika/ Nihon Kawakami Sadayakko" resp. translated: "Meiji 34 [= 1901], 12th month, 20th day/ Kawakami Sadayakko from Japan"; in left Japanese brush script a thin, barely discernible pencil sketch of the dancer in profile as a walking draped figure.
Condition:
framed; small professional retouchings
Literature:
Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Das Bildnis des Francisco d'Andrade als Don Giovanni und die Schauspieler-Rollenporträts, in: Max Slevogt, Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, pp. 69 ff., especially p. 78;Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London 3 Dec.1985, Impressionist and Modern paintings and sculpture, Part II, lot 152 with color illus. p. 64 ("The Property of Professor Peter Plesch/ Max Slevogt, Sada Yakko and a Japanese Child"), here erranously dated ("20 December 1906"); Marc Restellini (ed.), Meisterwerke von Fra Angelico bis Bonnard. Fünf Jahrhunderte Malerei. Die Sammlung des Dr. Rau, exhib. cat. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Cologne/ Haus der Kunst, Munich, Geneva 2001, cat. no. 80, p. 198 with color illus. p. 199 (erroneously dated "1906"); Peter Pantzer, Japanischer Theaterhimmel über Europas Bühnen, Kawakami Otojiro, Sadayakko und ihre Truppe auf Tournee durch Mittel- und Osteuropa 1901/1902, Munich 2005, with color illus. after p. XI ("Sadayakko with her foster-son Raikichi in Berlin"), pp. LXV, LXXVIII, cf. illus. 2 and 5; Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftung/Reis-Engelhorn-Museen/Verband der Deutsch-Japanischen Gesellschaften (ed.), Ferne Gefährten. 150 Jahre deutsch-japanische Beziehungen, Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung, Regensburg 2011, no. 103 with illus., pp. 138/139
Provenance:
Gift of the artist to Janos Plesch, Berlin; prof. Peter H. Plesch (J. Plesch's son); Christie's London, 1985 (acquired there)