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Grisebach
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45 Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

„Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens (nicht vollendet)“.

Oil and coloured chalk on canvas. 91,5 × 73 cm (36 × 28 ¾ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Göpel 529. Framed

Provenance

Formerly Stephan Lackner, Santa Barbara, California (acquired circa 1939/1946, thence by descent to the present owner; 2012 to 2015 loan to the Schloßmuseum Murnau)

EUR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000

USD 1,120,000 - 1,690,000

Sold for:

1,225,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Selected Works, 26 November 2015

Exhibition

Max Beckmann. An Exhibition. Oakland, The Mills College Art Gallery, 1950, cat. no. 5 / Max Beckmann. Gemälde und Aquarelle der Sammlung Stephan Lackner, USA. Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus dem Besitz der Kunsthalle Bremen. Bremen, Kunsthalle; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein e.V.; Vienna, Wiener Secession; Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, and Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 1966/67, p. 98, cat. no. 35, with full-pahe ill. / Max Beckmann, Retrospektive. Munich, Haus der Kunst; Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Saint Louis, Art Museum, and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, 1984/85 (not in the catalogue) / Stephan Lackner, der Freund Max Beckmanns. Munich, Max Beckmann Archiv, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, 2000 (= Hefte des Max Beckmann Archivs 5, ed. Christian Lenz), p. 110 (Christiane Zeiller: Sammlg. Stephan Lackner; not exhibited) / Max Beckmann. Von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, 2011/12, p. 72, cat. no. 193, full-page colour ill. p. 206

Literature and illustration

Stephan Lackner: Max Beckmann. “Der Regenbogen in meiner Tasche“. Ein Sammler erzählt. In: Epoca (Munich), 1967, no. 2, p. 42-57, here colour ill. p. 49 / Stephan Lackner: Ich erinnere mich gut an Max Beckmann. Mainz 1967, p. 89 (as “Portrait eines jungen Mädchens“ mentioned in a letter from Max Beckmann to Stephan Lackner, 20.11.1939) / Stephan Lackner: Max Beckmann. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1977, p. 30-31, ill. 31 on p. 30; see also the English edition, London etc, 1991, and the German edition, Cologne, DuMont, 1991 (initially Cologne, DuMont, 1978), p. 31-32, p. 30, ill. 31 / Klaus Gallwitz, Uwe M. Schneede and Stephan von Wiese (eds.): Max Beckmann, Letters. 3 vols. Munich and Zürich, Piper, 1993–1996. Here vol. III (1937–1950), prepared by Klaus Gallwitz with the collaboration of Ursula Harter, letter 710, p. 66, note p. 393 (the letter mentioned in Lackner 1967) /Grisebach. Das Journal. issue 5, Berlin 2015, p. 6-12, with illustration