Description:

Max MARTIN (1889–1965)
A study for a portrait of Doctor Hermann Kastner, Dresden
Pen and ink and brown wash
Inscribed verso 'Myers' and '15' (according to Bridget McDonnell Gallery's previous catalogue description)
38 x 25cm

PROVENANCE:
The estate of the artist, thence by descent
Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, from whom acquired by Terence Lane in November, 2023

EXHIBITIONS:
Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Max Martin, Adelaide, 1949, no. 29
Victorian Artists' Society, Max Martin, Melbourne, 1949, no. 25

  • Provenance: The estate of the artist, thence by descent
    Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, from whom acquired by Terence Lane in November, 2023
  • Dimensions: 38 x 25cm
  • Exhibited: Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Max Martin, Adelaide, 1949, no. 29
    Victorian Artists' Society, Max Martin, Melbourne, 1949, no. 25
  • Medium: Pen and ink and brown wash
  • Condition: Apparently in good condition for the most part.

    There are a few small areas of made up paper loss and other damage, mostly towards the edges, the largest at lower centre, with others smaller in the upper right part of the work and scattered elsewhere (as visible in the catalogue photo).

    (In preparing this report the work has not been examined out of its glazed frame.)


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