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Title: Frank Duveneck
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Heermann, Norbert
Subjects: American art
Publisher: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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zed its meaningin the painting of this urchin, a masterpiece bya young man barely twenty-four years old ! In the Womanwith a Fan, which belongsto the following year, the dignity of arrange-ment, but especially the study of the head, itssoft flesh colors and texture, with the only twostrongly defined accents, the dark eyes, is trulysuperb. This was one of the portraits sold orig-inally for three hundred dollars from his Bostonexhibition. The same year he painted the por-trait of Loefftz. Anybody, but especially thosewho paint themselves, will find it hard to be-lieve that while there may have been some pre-vious preparation of the canvas, this beautifullycomplete piece of painting was done in onesitting, lasting all day and to the point of ex-haustion of both painter and sitter. This wasone of the portraits that the German Govern-ment indirectly tried to buy for the National THE RIALTO, VENICE1883 Characteristic of the breadth and dignity of Duvenecks whole se-ries of Italian etchings.
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y £> < FRANK DUVENECK 77 Gallery in Berlin, but was not able to get. Thereare many portraits of this first Munich periodof Duvenecks that he has lost track of. He usedto paint anybody then who came along and puttwenty marks down on the table. The Un-finished Portrait Study of a girls head, belong-ing to the same year, 1873, is interesting notonly as a piece of superb painting, but becauseof important associations. It was painted inMunich, in 1873, the year of the cholera, ofwhich Wilhelm von Kaulbach,the official headof the Royal Academy, was one of the victims.The sketch of this girl was the work of a coupleof hours. The model was supposed to comeback the next day, but when Duveneck arrivedfor his sitting he was informed that she had diedduring the night of the cholera. I dare say, inregard to the depth of expression in this head,that if the imagination were given rein it wouldseem as though the artist must have beenspurred by some sense of her impending fate,or as though in h

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