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STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892 image 1
STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892 image 2
STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892 image 3
STUCK (FRANZ) Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892 image 4
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STUCK (FRANZ)
Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", Munich, October 1892

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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STUCK (FRANZ)

Autograph presentation vignette drawing of his Medusa head, executed in black ink over pencil, the staring eyes heightened in light brown wash, lettered in Secessionist script below "MEDUSA", mounted above an autograph note in German presenting it to Clara Loeb, plus an autograph letter signed to Herr Loeb (presumably her father), arranging delivery of Siesta by 30 November for exhibition in Vienna, 3 pages in all, both items laid down on an album leaf (the drawing mounted on second integral leaf and therefore not directly affected), some light dust-staining, 8vo, Munich, October 1892

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STUCK'S FAMOUS IMAGE OF THE SERPENT-WREATHED HEAD OF MEDUSA – a quintessential Symbolist vision, dating from the year Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession and held his first major one-man exhibition in Vienna that December. Stuck executed at least two other versions of the Medusa that year, the oil now in the Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg (Gentil-Haus), and a pastel, recently exhibited in Sünde und Secession: Franz von Stuck in Wien (Belvedere, Vienna, 2016).

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