4436 - Keitner, Faun with Nymph

Keitner, Faun with Nymph A seated faun with a panpipe against a hilly landscape; below him, a naked nymph lies with a red scarf, she gazes wistfully at the grass before her, yet reaches longingly with her left arm towards the faun’s leg; he is absorbed in playing his flute, in the background a small stream; at Pan’s feet, reeds - possibly an allusion to the story of Pan and Syrinx; a large-scale, late-Symbolist depiction with broad brushstrokes; possibly a work by the Hungarian-Austrian painter Miska Mihály Keitner (born in Vienna in 1892, a pupil of Ede Balló, active in Budapest), of whom only one painting from 1914 can be verified; oil on canvas, signed and dated 1917 in the lower right-hand corner, shows signs of age, requires light cleaning, framed, inner dimensions 137 x 99 cm. Source: Artprice, General Artists’ Encyclopaedia Online.