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MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)

Lot 477
07.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1381145
Lot 477 | MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Lesendes Mädchen
signed 'Beckmann' (lower right); inscribed '(Lesendes Mädchen)' (on the reverse)
pen and India ink and pencil on paper
10 ½ x 12 5/8 in. (26.6 x 32 cm.)
Executed circa 1947




Provenance

Mathilde Q. Beckmann [the artist's wife], New York, by descent from the artist.
(Probably) Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin], New York, by 1955, on consignment from the above.
Private collection, New Jersey; sale, Dr Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 6 June 1964, lot 325.
Private collection, Hamburg, by 1976.
Hermann Heidtmann, Bad Homburg.
Galerie Joseph Fach, Frankfurt.
Private collection, Frankfurt, by whom acquired from the above, in 1987.



Literature

Die Weltkunst, Munich, 15 May 1964 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1946'; with incorrect medium).
E. & B. Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde, vol. I, Katalog und Dokumentation, Bern, 1976, pp. 452 & 589 (illustrated p. 589; with incorrect medium).



Exhibited

St. Louis, City Art Museum, Max Beckmann 1948, May - June 1948, no. 81, p. 99 (dated 'circa 1946'; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Detroit, Institute of Arts, July 1948; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, August - September 1948; Baltimore, Museum of Art, October - November 1948; and Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, January - February 1949.
Frankfurt, Galerie Joseph Fach, Frankfurter Malerei seit der Jahrhundertwende, November 1988 - May 1989, no. 10a, p. 8 (titled 'Sitzende junge Frau nach links, lesend').
Bad Homburg, Sinclair-Haus, Max Beckmann, Spektakel des Lebens, Arbeiten auf Papier, October - December 2001, no. 37, pp. 38 & 169 (illustrated p. 38; titled 'Sitzende junge Frau nach links, lesend'; and with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Essen, Museum Folkwang, February - April 2002; and Ulm, Ulmer Museum, April - June 2002.
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Beckmann & America, October 2011 - January 2012, no. 57, p. 144 (illustrated p. 145; titled 'Young Woman Seated to the Left, Reading').
Kochel am See, Franz Marc Museum, Lektüre, Bilder vom Lesen - Vom Lesen der Bilder, June - September 2018, pp. 118-120 & 161 (illustrated p. 118; titled 'Sitzende junge Frau nach links, lesend' and with incorrect medium).
Herford, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Das Lesen in der Kunst, Lektürebilder - Bildlektüre, September - December 2019, pp. 51 & 88 (illustrated p. 51; titled 'Sitzende junge Frau nach links, lesend' and with incorrect medium).



Further details

This work will be included into the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Max Beckmann's drawings, currently compiled by Hedda Finke and Stephan Wiese.
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