Max Beckmann Self-Portrait with a Cigarette Frankfurt 1923
- MoMA, Floor 5, 514 The David Geffen Wing
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 23 3/4 x 15 7/8" (60.2 x 40.3 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Hirschland
- Object number
- 255.1956
- Copyright
- © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Max Beckmann has 219 works online.
- There are 2,455 paintings online.
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German Painting and Sculpture
Mar 12–Apr 22, 1931
2 other works identified
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Recent European Acquisitions
Nov 28, 1956–Jan 20, 1957
1 other work identified
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Recent European Acquisitions
Nov 28, 1956–Jan 20, 1957
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
May 4–Sep 18, 1960
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
8 other works identified
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
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Art of the Twenties
Nov 14, 1979–Jan 22, 1980
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Artist’s Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/
The Modern Portrait Jan 10–Mar 19, 1991
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Making Choices
Mar 16–Sep 26, 2000
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Max Beckmann
Jun 26–Sep 29, 2003
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
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514: Weimar Citizens
Ongoing
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514: Weimar Citizens
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514: Weimar Citizens
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
Acquired from the artist by J.B. Neumann (1887-1961), New York, by 1927 [1]; Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, before 1930 [2]; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956 (Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F.H. Hirschland).
[1] Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde, Bern: Kornfeld & Cie., 1976, vol. 1, no. 221. Included in the exhibition Max Beckmann, New Art Circle (J.B. Neumann), New York, April 12-May 11, 1927. Reproduced on the front cover of Art Lover: I.B. Neumanns Bilderhefte: Max Beckmann, April 1915.
[2] Included in the exhibition Modern German Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 12-April 26, 1931, no. 7. Lender: F.H. Hirschland.
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