Surrender (girl head) 1900
Half portrait of a young girl with arms crossed over the chest, looking to the sky.
Oil on wood 67 x 50 cm
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams.
Painting lost.
Photo: Künstlerhaus Archiv Vienna.
Color insert from a private photograph of the 1986 exhibition.
This contemplative genre painting is one of a series of portraits of girls, all done around 1900, that treat religious subjects and were created in a "user-friendly" (i.e., rather smaller) format. The painting has unfortunately been lost since the 1986 exhibition.
Cross-references
Exhibited
1986 Academy Schillerplatz Vienna 1986, Viennese Society in Portrait, Catalog No. 4.
Literature
Schaffer/Eisenberger 1986, exhibition catalog #4 (no ill.).
APH, catalog raisonné JQA 1995, p. 38, cat.#7, no.ill.
Provenance
Unknown.
Auction Dorotheum Vienna 29.10.1937 Lot#516. Unknown.
1986 Private collection Vienna.
Since then lost.