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Oil on canvas, relined, 79.5 x 65.5 cm, framed. Signed 'Slevogt' and dated 'Lenggries 93' lower left. - Small retouches and a small tear, professionally closed. Not recorded by Imiela With a photo-certificate by Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Mainz, dated 4 October 1973 as well as a photo-certificate by the same, Mainz, dated 27 June 2001 Provenance Private possession, Baden-Württemberg; Lempertz Cologne, auction 535, 30 November 1973, lot 675; private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate According to the certificates provided by Imiela, the estate of the artist includes a sketchbook with the annotation "Munich 1893", which contains at least two portrait drawings of the depicted person. Max Slevogt has depicted the young woman in this painting in a classic portrait pose. She appears lost in thought, gazing out past the observer. In contrast to the subdued colours of the background, the light blue tones of her dress, with its wide collar and sleeves, the blue-grey of her eyes and her bright red lips appear all the more vivid. It is not recorded who the person depicted is. Since 1890, Max Slevogt was working as a painter in Munich, but around this time he often spent the summers in Kochel am See, near to the small town of Lenggries, where this portrait was painted. In the 1890s, the artist developed his individual style and his own pictorial solutions. "The more secure Slevogt's grasp of his images, the greater his understanding of his models. He is versatile and open-minded in his approach, and even manages to interpret people with much different temperaments to his own. All his portraits tend to be more restrained than talkative." (Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Max Slevogt. Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, p. 27).