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Max Beckmann Evening (Self-Portrait with the Battenbergs) [Der Abend (Selbstbildnis mit den Battenbergs)] from Faces (Gesichter) printed 1916, published 1919

  • Not on view
Medium
One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
Dimensions
plate: 9 7/16 x 7" (23.9 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 1/2" (30.4 x 24.1 cm)
Publisher
Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich
Printer
Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich
Edition
First edition, 1919: 100 (including 40 printed before steel-facing on "Japan" paper and 60 printed after steel-facing on laid paper [this ex.]); plus 1 known state proofs and 3 known trial proofs; Posthumous edition, 1973: 205 (including 40 on "Japan" paper numbered through XL/XL; 150 on wove paper, numbered through 150/150; 5 hors commerce on "Japan" paper, numbered HCI-HCV; and 10 hors commerce on wove paper, numbered HC1-HC10)
Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number
294.1951
Copyright
© 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Department
Drawings and Prints
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