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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Die Granate ('Grenade')
drypoint
1914
on Zanders simili Japon paper, with their watermark
signed and dated 15 in pencil, numbered 15/20
a fine impression, printing with considerable burr and sharp, inky plate edges
third, final state, from the only edition, published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1918
the full sheet, with deckle edges
generally in good condition
Plate 38,8 x 28,8 cm. (1538 x 1138 in.)
Sheet 64,2 x 48,3 cm. (2514 x 19 in.)
Provenance
With Galerie I. B. Neumann, Frankfurt am Main.
With Allan Frumkin (1927–2002), Chicago (this impression cited by Hofmaier).
Saint Louis Art Museum; presumably acquired from the above; sold to benefit the acquisitions fund, Christie's, New York, 4 November 2003, lot 29.
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. 80, pp. 196-197 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 9, pp. 157 & 33, pl. 7 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 19 (ill.), p. 70.
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