Name: MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Brand: Kasbek
Price: 5000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Kasbek
drypoint
1923
on BSB laid paper
signed in pencil
a fine impression, printing with much burr and tonal plate edges
from the edition of approximately thirty impressions, probably published by Günther Franke, Munich
with wide margins
in good condition
Plate 49 x 21,2 cm. (19¹⁄₄ x 8³⁄₈ in.)
Sheet 64,3 x 35,7 cm. (25¹⁄₄ x 14 in.)

Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 18 June 2004, lot. 9.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to present owners

J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisonnée of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. II, no. 281, pp. 696-697 (another impression ill.).

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Berliner Reise - Grafik aus dem Besitz der Hamburger Kunsthalle, January-March 1984, no. 79, pl. 23a (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 36, p. 167 & 129, pl. 88 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 – January 2008, no. 87 (ill.), p. 138.

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Kasbek was presumably a night club or cabaret owned by Russian or Georgian emigrés in Berlin, named after one of the highest mountains in the Georgian Caucasus. There were many such establishments in Germany after the Russian revolution. The accordion player's livery jacket and boots with the astrakhan fur lining betray a Russian or Central Asian context.