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Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

„Jupiter und Jokaste“. 1946

Watercolour, pencil and pen and India ink on laid paper. 32,5 × 50,4 cm (12 ¾ × 19 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Beckmann. „Jupiter und Jokaste“. 1946.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 56,000

 

- 78,400

Sold for:

85,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Selected Works, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Watercolour, pencil and pen and India ink on laid paper. 32,5 × 50,4 cm (12 ¾ × 19 ⅞ in.). Lower right inscribed, signed and dated: A Beckmann 46. Catalogue raisonné: Beckmann/Gohr/Hollein 122. Framed

Mathilde Q. Beckmann, New York / Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York / formerly Stanley J. Seeger Collection, USA / England

The Actors by Beckmann. New York, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, 1946, cat. no. 14 / Drawings by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors. New York, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, 1947, cat. no. 3 / Max Beckmann. Retrospective Exhibition. St. Louis, City Art Museum; Detroit, Institute of Arts; Los Angeles, County Museum; San Francisco, De Young Memorial Museum; Baltimore, Museum of Art; Cambridge, Busch-Reisinger Museum; Boulder, University of Colorado Museum, 1948/49, cat. no. 82, ill. p. 89/ Der antike Mythos in der neuen Kunst. Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1950, cat. no.12 (title: Jupiter und Jo) / Max Beckmann – Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors. New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, 1957 (brochure) / The Stanley J. Seeger, Jr. Collection on Special Exhibition. Princeton University, The Art Museum, 1961, cat. no. 30, ill. / Max Beckmann – Aquarelle und Zeichnungen 1903 bis 1950. Bielefeld, Kunsthalle; Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Frankfurt a. M., Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1977/78, cat. no. 193, ill. p. 71

Erhard Göpel (ed.): Max Beckmann. Tagebücher 1940-1950. Zusammengestellt von Mathilde Q. Beckmann. Munich und Zürich, Piper Verlag, 1984, p. 151

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