
In the Sea
Arnold Böcklin · 1883
Provenance
Ownership history
- Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, 1884. Adalbert Mylius-Gemuseus, Basel, Switzerland, 1886 to at least 1927 [see Basel 1927]; by descent to Herr Simon-Mylius, Basel. Albert Vorster-Burckhardt, Basel from 1950, offered for sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1990, lot 127; bought in; sold by Vorster-Burckhardt through Sotheby's to the Art Institute, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, 1884.
- Basel, Kunsthalle, Basel Kunstverein, Katalog der Böcklin-Jubiläums-Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Basel, 1897, no. 76.
- Basel, Kunsthalle, Arnold Böcklin (1827-1927): Austellung zur Feier des 100. Geburtsjahres, 1927, no. 123a.
- Basel, Kunsthalle, Arnold Böcklin: Ausstellung zum Gedächtinis an seinen 50. Todestag, 1951, no. 104.
- Basel, Kunstmuseum, Arnold Böcklin 1827-1901: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken-Ausstellung zum 150. Geburtstag, 1977, p. 207, no. 169 (ill.).
- Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870–1940, March 28–June 8, 2003, no. 4.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, February 14–April 26, 2009, cat. 91 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Heinrich Alfred Schmid, Arnold Böcklin: Eine Auswahl der hervorragendsten Werke des Künstlers in Photogravüre (Munich, 1897), vol. III, pl. 14 (ill.).
- K. Woermann, "Arnold Böcklin," Von Apelles zu Böcklin, Esslingen, vol. 2, 1912, p. 162.
- Carl Neumann, "Zu Arnold Böcklins siebenzigsterm Geburtstag," Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 13, 1898, p. 9 (ill.).
- Heinrich Wölfflin, "Die Böcklin-Ausstellung zu Basel," Kunstchronik 1898, p. 36.
- Franz Hermann Meissner, Arnold Böcklin (Berlin, 1901), pp. 106-7.
- Henriette Mendelsohn, Böcklin (Berlin, 1901), pp. 144, 182, 183.
- Gustav Floerke, Zehn Jahre mit Böcklin (Munich, 1902), pp. 26, 82-3 (ill.).
- Adolf Frey, Arnold Böcklin in Zürich (Zürich, 1902), p. 13.
- Otto Lasius, Tagebücher (Berlin, 1903), p. 134.
- Heinrich Alfred Schmid, Böcklin-Verzeichnis (Munich, 1903), no. 326.
- Alfred Julius Meier-Graefe, Der Fall Böcklin und die Lehre von den Einheiten (Stuttgart, 1905), pp. 230, 255.
- Kornel Jaskulski, Der Symbolismus Böcklins (Czernowitz, 1909), pp. 24, 26.
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