MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)

Self-Portrait, from: Day and Dream

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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Self-Portrait, from: Day and Dream
lithograph with extensive hand-colouring in watercolour, 1946, on stiff wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered 18/90, inscribed with the plate number I, one of probably only five impressions hand-coloured by the artist, from the edition of one hundred copies (ten were unnumbered and reserved for the artist), published by Curt Valentin, New York, 1946
Image 315 x 265 mm.
Sheet 400 x 300 mm.
來源
Private collection; sale, Christie's, New York, 19 November 1993, lot 105.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
出版
Hofmaier 357
注意事項
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Imogen Kerr
Imogen Kerr Vice President, Senior Specialist, Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale

拍品專文

The present lithograph with hand-colouring is Max Beckmann's final self-portrait in the print medium, showing him aged 62, his broad head almost fully frontal, his hand raised holding the ubiquitous cigarette before him. He seems to look towards, yet somehow through, the viewer. It is the empty, un-seeing stare of a person looking inside themselves, caught up in memories and reflections. 1946 was the last year of his ten year exile in Amsterdam, having left Germany in 1937 as a reaction to the 'degenerate art' policy. The following year, in 1947, he received a visa for the USA, where he would live and work as an art teacher for the final three years of his life.
Max Beckmann was only seventeen when he made his first printed self-portrait, depicting himself as an isolated, screaming head (Hofmaier 2). In the intervening forty-five years he returned to his own likeness as a subject no fewer than thirty-five times, rivalling Rembrandt as possibly the greatest self-portraitist in the history of printmaking.

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