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Lady with Lace Panties, 1903/06

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
India ink, gouache, spray technique on cadastral paper
37×29.9 cm

Artists

  • Alfred Kubin

    (Litoměřice 1877–1959 Zwickledt)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In his drawing Lady with Lace Panties, the Austrian draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) plays delightfully with exaltation and fairy-tale-like escalation to present a female figure, clad only in dark, pleated full breeches trimmed with flounces and in a tight, frilled corset, posing in a striding posture in the middle ground of the drawing. With her right arm extended backwards, she is propping herself up on a thin, elegant walking stick with a spherical, pink embellishment and putting out her chest, baring her right breast as she balances on tiny blueish heels and raises her full head of blue-glowing hair, gazing into the distance outside the picture. The affected figure is positioned centrally on a small mound in the midst of a meadow dotted with flowering crocuses or meadow saffrons. A shrub, rolling hills and fog-like mist form the background. Growing out of the foreground, a white, strangely distorted poodle is looking directly at the beholders. In front of it there is a dense cluster of irises in full bloom. Once more, Kubin reveals his talent as a brilliant storyteller: With fine pencil strokes he bestows a mysterious atmospheric density upon his narrative.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Alfred Kubin
Title
Lady with Lace Panties
Date
1903/06
Art movement
Symbolism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
India ink, gouache, spray technique on cadastral paper
Dimensions
37×29.9 cm
Signature
Signed lower right using pencil: Kubin; designated lower left using pencil: Dame mit Spitzenhöschen.; monogrammed using an embossed stamp and numbered lower left: 79
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 884
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

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