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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Musterung ('Inspection')
drypoint
1914
on laid paper, without watermark
signed and dated in pencil, numbered 8/20
a very good impression of the second, final state, printing with considerable burr
from the only edition, published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1918
with wide margins
some pale staining in the margins
Plate 29,6 x 23,4 cm. (1158 x 914 in.)
Sheet 49 x 38,5 cm. (1914 x 1518 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 27 May 2006, lot 6535.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisoneé of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. I, no. 79, pp. 192-195 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Berliner Reise - Grafik aus dem Besitz der Hamburger Kunsthalle, January-March 1984, no. 17.
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 18 (ill.), p. 69.
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