BECKMANN, MAX
1884 Leipzig - 1950 New York
Title: Der große Mann (Plate 5 from: Der Jahrmarkt ).
Date: 1921/66.
Technique: Drypoint on laid paper.
Depiction Size: 31 x 21cm.
Sheet Size: 51,5 x 36,5cm.
Notation: Numbered. As well as with estate stamp and signature from Peter Beckmann.
Publisher: Verlag der Marées Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co, Munich (publisher).
Number: 57/80.
Condition:
Under the former mount window slightly discoloured. Occasional slight foxing. Verso slightly and irregularly discoloured and remains of an old mounting. Otherwise in good condition.
From the posthumous edition of 1966 with the estate stamp verso and the signature of Peter Beckmann.
Provenance:
- Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt a.M. (according to the consignor)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen
Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Hofmaier, James: Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisonné of his prints, Vol. 2 1921-1948, Bern 1990, cat. rais. no. 195 II C b
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 33, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Von Beckmann bis Warhol, Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts - Die Sammlung Bayer, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 110, ill.