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Kundry and Parsifal
Kundry and Parsifal

Kundry and Parsifal

Johannes Theodorus Toorop (Dutch, 1858–1928)
about 1895
Medium/TechniqueDrawing, charcoal or black chalk with colored crayon and graphite
DimensionsFramed: 37.6 x 40.2 x 2.5 cm (14 13/16 x 15 13/16 x 1 in.)
Sheet: 24.5 x 27 cm (9 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit LineJoseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund for Drawings
Accession number2016.188
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsSigned l.l. in blue colored pencil "j. Toorop"; inscribed l.r. in blue colored pencil "Kundry et Parsifal / Paris! funestre femme"ProvenanceBy 1941, Hendricus Petrus Bremmer (b. 1871 – d. 1956), the Hague [see note]. 1982, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York. May 24, 1988, anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York (19th-century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture), lot 178. Private collection, Japan. Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles and Edelman Fine Arts, New York. June 7, 2006, anonymous sale, Christie's South Kensington (19th-century European Art, Including Russian Pictures and a Symbolist Collection with a Richard Wagner section), lot 99, bought in; October 9, 2013, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York (Impressionist & Modern Art Including Russian Art), lot 63, bought in. By 2015, acquired on the New York art market by Robert Simon Fine Art, New York; 2016, sold by Robert Simon Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 25, 2016)

NOTE: Bremmer, a friend and promoter of Toorop, lent the drawing to the exhibition “Tentoonstelling van werken van Jan Toorop,” Centraal Museum Utrecht, July 1-September 1, 1941; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, October 4-November 2, 1941, cat. 55. He was listed as the owner as late as 1955, when the drawing was published by Bettina Polak, Het fin-de-siècle in de Nederlandse schilderkunst (The Hague, 1955), p. 365, cat. no. 74.

Belgische Vluchtelingen (Belgian Refugees)
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1914
Achill Island, Ireland
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1911
Broek in Waterland
(probably Marken)
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1903
Artist sketching along the river
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1895
Artist sketching along the river
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1895
Panis Angelicus
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1894
Theodora DeSitter
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1907
Landscape with River and Wooden Bridge
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
about 1892
Verloren Paradijs (Expulsion From Paradise)
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1893
Allegory: Music Inspiring the Arts (?)
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1896
Panis Angelicus
Johannes Theodorus Toorop
1894