Entkleidetes Café

Details

Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Entkleidetes Café
signed 'Beckmann' (lower right); inscribed and dated by Quappi Beckmann '"das entkleidete café" 12. Mai 1944' (on the reverse)
pen and India ink on paper
10 5/8 x 14 ½ in. (27.2 x 36.8 cm.)
Executed in Amsterdam on 12 May 1944

Provenance

Achim Moeller, London.
Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York.
Stanley J. Seeger Jr., London, by whom acquired from the above, on 2 April 1956; his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 2001, lot 90.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 6 February 2003, lot 464.
Acquired at the above sale.

Literature

M.Q. Beckmann & E. Göpel, eds., Max Beckmann: Tagebücher 1940-1950, Munich, 1979, p. 89.

Exhibited

Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. Collection, June 1961, no. 27, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1903 bis 1950, October - December 1977, no. 164, p. 63 (illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to Tubingen, Kunsthalle, January - February 1978; and Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, March - May 1978.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings.
This work is mentioned by the artist in his diary: "'Entkleidetes Café' gezeichnet... Sehr heiß. Abenspaziergang mit Q. zur Amstel...'.['Drew "Entkleidetes Café"... Very hot. Evening walk to the Amstel with Q...']" (quoted in E. Göpel (ed.), Op. cit., p. 89.).

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