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This 1924 canvas held at the Bavarian State Painting Collections places Corinth in the final year before his death in 1925, working in the full freedom of his late Walchensee style. The Bavarian State Painting Collections, which encompass the Alte and Neue Pinakothek in Munich, hold significant German modern painting, and a 1924 Corinth — made in the last year of his life — represents one of the most intensely expressive phases of his entire career. By 1924 Corinth was seventy-six years old, working with the trembling, liberated hand of a man who had outlasted his stroke by thirteen years and transformed physical limitation into stylistic signature. His late paintings are now regarded as among the most powerful late-career bodies of work in modern European art.

A 1924 Corinth canvas displays the maximum expressionist intensity of his late style: wide, swirling brushstrokes that map the world into a personal gestural language, color pushed beyond observation into feeling, and paint built up in dense impasto passages that create a physically dynamic surface. The technical control that made his earlier work admirable is here subordinated to emotional and expressive truth.