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Max Beckmann. Monte Carlo

Lot 45
29.11.2023 18:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 45 | Max Beckmann. Monte Carlo
Estimate value
€ 800 000 – 1 200 000
BECKMANN, MAX1884 Leipzig - 1950 New York


Title: Monte Carlo.
Date: 1936.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 64.5 x 107cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Beckmann 36.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


The work is listed in the online catalogue raisonné "Max Beckmann - Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde" under cat. rais. no. 438 (www.beckmann-gemaelde.org).

Provenance:
- Atelier Max Beckmann
- Barbara Kempner, Berlin/USA (directly from the artist, 1936 to around 1996)
- Christie's, London, 9.10.1997, 5859th auction, lot 210
- Private collection Germany

Exhibitions:
- Haus der Kunst, Munich 1968 (label)
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris 1968 (label)
- Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1969

Literature:
- Göpel, Barbara and Erhard/Tiedemann, Anja: Max Beckmann. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings - www.beckmann-gemaelde.org [last access: 19.09.2023]
- Tiedemann, Anja (ed.): Max Beckmann. Die Gemälde, vol. 1 and 2, Ahlen 2021, cat. rais. no. 438, ill.
- Erhard and Barbara Göpel: Max Beckmann. Catalogue of the paintings, vol. 1 and 2, Bern 1976, cat. rais. no. 438, ill.
- Reifenberg, Benno/Hausenstein, Wilhelm: Max Beckmann, Munich 1949, cat. rais. no. 442 (here titled "Südliche Hafenstadt")
- Piper, Klaus (ed.): After Fifty Years. Almanac, Munich 1954, p.177, ill.
- Exhibition cat. Max Beckmann, Haus der Kunst, Munich 1968, cat. rais. no. 59, ill. (here titled 'Südliche Hafenstadt')
- Exhibition-cat. Max Beckmann, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris 1968, cat. rais. no. 61 (here titled 'Port Méridional')
- Stehlé-Akhtar, Barbara: Wunschträume. Max Beckmann and the Cote d'Azur, in: Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2003, pp. 126-135.
- Cf. exhibition cat. Max Beckmann. People by the Sea, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Ostfindern-Ruit 2003


- Outstanding example of Beckmann's new solutions for landscape painting
- Motif of the Côte d'Azur as a metaphor for the lost paradise
- Offered on the market for the first time in 25 years.
Artist:Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950)
Applied technique:Oil
Auction house category:Modern Art
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