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Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

”Nebelsonne”. 1905

Oil on canvas. 74 × 53 cm (29 ⅛ × 20 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Beckmann. ”Nebelsonne”. 1905.

Estimate:

EUR 90,000

 

- 120,000

USD 96,800

 

- 129,000

Sold for:

107,950 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions Summer 2024

Selected Works, Thursday, 30.05.2024

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Oil on canvas. 74 × 53 cm (29 ⅛ × 20 ⅞ in.). Monogrammed upper right, dedicated and dated: HBSL [Herr Beckmann seiner Liebsten] 05. Catalogue raisonné: Tiedemann MB-G 40 (online-catalogue raisonné). Framed

Paul Zech and Margarethe Zech, born Beckmann, divorced Lüdecke, Wangerin (Pomerania) / Bischofsheim (Rhön) / Hildegard von der Brinken, born Lüdecke, daughter from first marriage of Margarethe Zech, Munich (died 1959) / Georg Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt (acquired 1959 from resp. via Erhard Göpel, to 1975) / Private Collection, Southern Germany

The painting was created in Jutland/Denmark in 1905. Max Beckmann mentions it in his letters dated 14 August 1905.

Max Beckmann. Die frühen Bilder. Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, 1982, Kat.-Nr. 17, Abb. S. 67, Tf. 18

Susanne Rother: Beckmann als Landschaftsmaler. Beiträge zur Kunstwissenschaft, vol. 34, also dissertation, Univ. Köln, 1989. Munich, Scaneg Verlag, 1990, p. 34, without ill. / Klaus Gallwitz, Uwe M. Schneede und Stephan von Wiese (Hg.): Max Beckmann, Briefe. 3 vol., here vol. I: 1899–1925, revised by Uwe M. Schneede, S. 40, no. 19 (to Caesar Kunwald) and p. 405 / Christian Lenz: Max Beckmann. Münster, Rhema, 2002, p. 31, without ill.

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