Name: MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Brand: Gruppenbildnis, Edenbar
Price: 10000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Gruppenbildnis, Edenbar
woodcut
1923
on wove blotting paper
signed in pencil, dated 23, and titled Eden Hôtel and inscribed (Handprobedruck)
a hand-printed proof impression of the second state (one of four proofs recorded by Hofmaier)
before the numbered edition of forty
the full sheet
defects along the sheet edges, the subject in good condition
Block 49,4 x 49,5 cm. (19³⁄₈ x 19¹⁄₂ in.)
Sheet 70,7 x 55,8 cm. (27⁷⁄₈ x 22 in.)

Karl & Faber, Munich, 27-28 May 1971, lot 504.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisoneé of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. II, no. 277, pp. 688-689 (this impression cited; another impression ill.).

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Berliner Reise - Grafik aus dem Besitz der Hamburger Kunsthalle, January - March 1984, no. 80, pl. 24 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann – Menschenorchester, August 1998 – January 1999 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 35, pp. 167 & 128, pl. 87 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 86 (ill.), p. 137.

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