Ida Teichmann (1874-after 1925), also known as Idi Teichmann
Self-Portrait
oil on canvas
circa 1910
54 x 54 cm
signed lower left: "Idi Teichmann"
framed by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester (label verso)
Discussion:
"The German Ida Teichmann [was] a very fine artist who specialized in brilliant, realistic pencil studies of young women," often "a supremely sensuous depiction of erotic lassitude." Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), at pg. 156, ill. V, 32. See, e.g., Ida Teichmann 3 on the Symbolismus website, hereinbelow. She published in the art nouveau periodical Jugend in 1918. Dijkstra at pg. 191.