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Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

“Selbstbildnis“. 1922

Woodcut on faintly pink-coloured Japan paper. 22,2 × 15,5 cm (49 × 35 cm) (8 ¾ × 6 ⅛ in. (19 ¼ × 13 ¾ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Beckmann. “Selbstbildnis“. 1922.

Estimate:

EUR 7,000

 

- 9,000

USD 7,690

 

- 9,890

Sold for:

8,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

Modern Art & A Rhenish Private Collection, Friday, 29.11.2019

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Woodcut on faintly pink-coloured Japan paper. 22,2 × 15,5 cm (49 × 35 cm) (8 ¾ × 6 ⅛ in. (19 ¼ × 13 ¾ in.)). Signed. Catalogue raisonné: Hofmaier 226 III.B.A. (of B.b.f.). One of a total of 75 prints on this paper. Munich, Verlag R. Piper & Co., Munich, 1922. Paper tone slightly faded. Framed

The first self portrait, that Beckmann cut in wood, was re-used on the poster for his big retrospective exhibition in 1928 at Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim..

Paper tone slightly faded

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