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The Feast of the Prodigal Son (Die Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes wird gefeiert)
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
(c. 1918). Gouache and watercolor over ink and pencil drawing on parchment, 14 1/4 x 11 3/4" (36.1 x 29.7 cm). Purchase
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
263.1939
Graphisches Kabinett J.B. Neumann, Berlin/Munich, by 1921; acquired by the Folkwang Museum, Essen, 1929; removed by the Nazi government, August 1937; deposited at Schloss Niederschönhausen, Berlin; acquired by Karl Buchholz, Berlin, 1939; sold by Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939.
Die Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes wird gefeiert
The Feast of the Prodigal Son
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