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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Das Leichenschauhaus (Morgue)
drypoint
1915
on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys with Initials VGZ
signed and dated in pencil, numbered 3/20
a very good impression of the fourth, final state
printing with much burr and a light plate tone
from the only edition, published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1918
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
in good condition
Plate 25,7 x 35,5 cm. (1018 x 14 in.)
Sheet 39,3 x 54,9 cm. (1514 x 2138 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 9 June 2000, lot 1256.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descene to the present owners.
Literature
J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisoneé of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. I, no. 83, pp. 214-215 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 7, pp. 157 & 31, pl. 5 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 22 (ill.), p. 73.
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