1923. Drypoint on yellowish wove paper, 12.7 x 11.5 cm (plate), 32.4 x 24.5 cm (sheet). Numbered 1/50 in pencil by the artist, inscribed ‘Selbstdruck’ (self-print), titled ‘‘Trunkener Bacchante’ (Drunken Bacchant) and signed ‘Otto Schubert’. Reference: Matuszak 4133 (there “untitled”). Provenance: Heinrich Stinnes Collection (Lugt 1376a) with his collector's stamp and note on the acquisition “Otto Schubert” and “Goyert I/1923” on the lower left margin of the sheet.
The Goyert art gallery opened in Cologne in 1919. With c. 200,000 sheets, Stinnes owned what was probably the largest private collection of graphic art ever to have existed. He mainly collected contemporary works and, as in the present case, the first impression of an edition. Oto Schubert is best known for his series of illustrations based on literary works (Reineke Fuchs, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Tyll Ulenspiegel). His preferred technique was drypoint.
