“The Kiss of the Sphinx” by Franz von Stuck

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The Kiss of the Sphinx

Franz von Stuck

c. 1895

Source: the 1896-97 Magazine of Art: 154.

“Though impressed on to a small canvas, it [The Sphinx] has a stamp of force that seems as if it might burst the frame! Stuck's power of expres- sion is greater than ever.” — Paul Schultze-Naumberg

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Although this painting is now known as The Kiss of the Sphinx and von Stuck's painting of a prone figure of a nude woman as The Sphinx, Schultze-Naumberg calls entitles the reproduction in his article simply as The Sphinx.

Bibliography

Bisanz-Prakken, Marian. "Khnoppf, Toorop, Minne and the Symbolism of Gustav Klimt." Intermezzo: Gustav Klimt und Wien un 1900/Gustav Klimt and Vienna around 1900. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, 2004.

Hofmann, Werner. Gustav Klimt. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1974.

Schultze-Naumberg, Paul. “Franz Stuck.” The Magazine of Art [London] 20 (1896-97): 153-58. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 4 November 2014.

Last modified 4 November 2014