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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)

Lot 43
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 600 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 43 | MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 800 000
MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Hemdfrau (auf Balkon)
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Beckmann 49. St.L.‘ (lower left)
oil on canvas
37 3/8 x 14 in. (95.3 x 35.3 cm.)
Painted in Saint Louis in 1949




Provenance

Morton D. May, Saint Louis, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1949 and until at least 1975.
Private collection, New York.
Galerie Serge Sabarsky, New York, 1981.
Acquired from the above in 1982, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

W. Hausenstein & B. Reifenberg, Max Beckmann, Munich, 1949, no. 660, p. 82 (titled 'Frau im Hemd mit Aussicht auf Canal in der Nacht').
M. Beckmann, Tagebücher 1940–1950, Munich, 1955, pp. 288, 315 & 318.
E. Göpel & B. Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde, vol. I, Bern, 1976, no. 787, p. 476 (illustrated vol. II, pl. 290).
F. Dieter & M. Kaldewei Kulturstiftung, Werkverzeichnis Max Beckmann - Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, no. 787 (accessed online, September 2024).



Exhibited

Saint Louis, City Art Museum, Max Beckmann: Retrospective Exhibition, June – September 1956.
Saint Louis, Pius XII Memorial Library, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, February – July 1960, no. 81 (illustrated; titled 'Girl Looking at a Canal').
Denver, Art Museum, German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Morton D. May, November – December 1960, no. 86 (titled 'Woman in Chemise on Balcony'); this exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, January - February 1961; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, March - April 1961; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, May - July 1961; Chicago, The Art Institute, August - September 1961; Youngstown, Butler Institute of American Art, 1961; Akron, Art Institute, January - February 1962; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, March - May 1962; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, May - June 1962; Baltimore, Museum of Art, July - September 1962; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, November 1962 - January 1963.
Portland, Art Museum, German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Morton D. May, September - October 1967.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Max Beckmann, November 1974, no. 38, p. 10 (illustrated p. 55); this exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough Gallery, March 1975.
Emden, Kunsthalle, on long term loan, by 2006.
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