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

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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.