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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Selbstbildnis
woodcut
1922
on pale pink Japan paper
signed in pencil and numbered IX/XX
a very good, clear and even impression of the third, final state
from the edition of 75 published by Reinhard Piper, Munich
(there was also an unsigned edition of 125 on laid paper)
with wide margins
some minor light-staining and a repaired tear in the lower margin
Block 22,2 x 15,5 cm. (834 x 618 in.)
Sheet 49 x 35 cm. (1914 x 1334 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 9 June 2000, lot 1278.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisonnée of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. II, no. 226 III B, pp. 574-577 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Meister der Druckgraphik in der deutschen Kunst der 20. Jahrhunderts, October - November 1970, no. 25.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 25, pp.165 & 119, pl. 78 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 77 (ill.), p. 128.
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