Emmons, by exchange Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust and Mugrabi Family Gifts Louis V. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Bequest of Julia W. Soulis Auctions has set the pre-sale estimate at $75,000-$125,000 with a minimum opening bid of $50,000.įor additional information about the painting, call 81 or email View the Septemauction catalog online and bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Lauschende Faune (Listening Fauns) will be auctioned without reserve on September 23, 2022. We’ve decided to leave the painting untouched so the winning bidder can decide if and where they wish to have it restored.” “The next owner may choose to have the painting professionally cleaned, which would reveal the image as seen in the photograph that appeared in the 1904 edition of Die Kunst. The 36½ by 33½-inch (47 by 44 inches framed) painting is presented in its original gilt frame custom-crafted by Hans Irlbacher of Munich, with the atelier’s label on verso. Label on verso from Munich framer Hans Irlbacher No receipt for the Stuck was found, however the Slaughters’ grandsons, who jointly own the painting, have confirmed its existence in their grandparents’ home beginning sometime in the 1960s. The Stuck painting was found together with a large British equestrian artwork which had documentation showing the Slaughters had purchased it in St Louis in 1964. No one knew where the painting was located or who owned it until 2021, when it was rediscovered in the Kansas City mansion of the late Colonel and Mrs S D Slaughter.” “For the next one hundred years, the painting was neither exhibited nor published. “And that is where the trail ran cold,” said Soulis. The next change in ownership was noted in the catalog for the aforementioned 1919 museum exhibition in Dallas, where the owner was shown as Edward A Faust, a prominent St Louis restauranteur who was connected to Adolphus Busch by marriage. The gallery sold the painting five days later to Hugo Reisinger, who is known to have been its owner until at least 1908. The Art Loss Registry has been instrumental in tracing the early years of Lauschende Faune’s ownership, starting with Galerie Heinemann, Stuck’s primary representative, which received it on August 9, 1899. But even years after the First World War ended, German art remained unfashionable and never had time to recover because of Germany’s aggressive role in World War Two.” He was also in demand as a teacher, with students like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. He was famous as the cofounder of the Munich Secession, had won a Gold Medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and had even been awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1906. “There can be no other explanation, because in 1909, Stuck was at the pinnacle of his career. “The ten-year hiatus was almost certainly attributable to the unfortunate effect World War One had on German art in general,” said Dirk Soulis, owner of Soulis Auctions. Soulis Auctions will sell the painting without reserve, per the family’s instructions.įranz von Stuck (German, 1863-1928), ‘Lauschende Faune’ (Listening Fauns), circa 1899, oil-on-panel, in its present state ![]() There, it was displayed by two consecutive generations of the same family, who were unaware of its background or true value. Titled Lauschende Faune (Listening Fauns), the circa-1899 oil-on-panel with a distinguished history of museum exhibition is now known to have spent the last 60 years in a Kansas City residence. Įxhibited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1909, ‘Lauschende Faune’ will be offered without reserve by Soulis Auctions on September 23 It will be auctioned on September 23 by Soulis Auctions, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. ![]() – A Met-exhibited artwork by the influential German Secessionist painter Franz von Stuck (né Franz Stuck, 1863-1928) has been rediscovered after being out of public sight for more than a century. 23, 2022 at Soulis Auctions in suburban Kansas City, Missouri. Franz von Stuck (né Franz Stuck, German, 1863-1928), ‘Lauschende Faune (Listening Fauns),’ circa 1899, oil-on-panel, as depicted (left) in a black & white photograph in the 1904 edition of the German art journal ‘Die Kunst,’ and (right) as it appears today, in need of professional cleaning to reveal its full image.
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