Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

Going Under Going Under (rejected plate) for the supplementary suite accompanying the portfolio A Life, Opus VIII

Date:

1884

Medium:

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions:

plate: 11 x 9 1/8" (27.9 x 23.2 cm); sheet: 21 3/4 x 16 11/16" (55.3 x 42.4 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, laid Asian.

Publisher:

The artist

Printer:

Otto Felsing, Berlin

Edition:

State proof before the edition of 6

Credit Line:

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Reference:

Singer 144 III.

MoMA Number:

2458.1967

Themes:

Death, Sex

Techniques:

Intaglio