Unknown artist, Princess with a Monkey
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Unknown artist

Princess with a Monkey

1913

Current Collection

Latvian National Museum of Art

Riga, Latvia

Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-160827

In the last years of his life, Janis Rozentāls repeatedly returned to the composition with the figures of a princess and monkey. The first of the painting was exhibited in 1913 at the 3rd Baltic Artists Union exhibition and at the international art show in Munich where the Leipzig publisher Velhagen & Klasing acquired reproduction rights ensuring wide popularity for the work. The symbolic content of the decoratively resplendent Art Nouveau composition has been interpreted as an allegory of the relationship between artist and society reflecting the power of money over the artist; on other occa…

Provenance

Latvian National Museum of Art

Registry history

  • 1913 — Recorded in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art

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