Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

Dreams (Träume) (plate 3) for the portfolio A Life, Opus VIII (Ein Leben, Opus VIII)

Date:

1884 (executed 1883, first published 1884)

Medium:

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions:

composition: 10 1/8 x 5 11/16" (25.7 x 14.4 cm); plate: 12 1/8 x 7 1/16" (30.8 x 18 cm); sheet: 24 9/16 x 17 11/16" (62.4 x 44.9 cm)

Paper:

White, smooth, wove.

Publisher:

The artist

Printer:

Otto Felsing, Berlin

Edition:

1st edition, Berlin, 1884, with supplementary suite of 5 rejected plates: 6; 2nd edition, Berlin, 1884: 10; 3rd edition, 1891: 15; 4th edition, after steel-facing, printed by Wilhelm Felsing, Berlin, 1898: unknown; 5th edition, posthumously published by Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 1920, and printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin: approx. 50 [this ex. is a state proof before the 1st edition]

Credit Line:

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Reference:

Singer 129 III.

MoMA Number:

2457.1967

Themes:

Fantasy, Sex

Techniques:

Intaglio