Max Beckmann. Playing Children, Broad Format (Spielende Kinder, Breitformat) from the portfolio Faces (Gesichter)

Max Beckmann

Playing Children, Broad Format (Spielende Kinder, Breitformat) from the portfolio Faces (Gesichter)

printed 1918, published 1919

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

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Medium One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
Dimensions plate: 10 3/16 × 12 1/16" (25.9 × 30.6 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 × 14 1/2" (37 × 36.9 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 2 known state proofs and 1 known trial proof; Posthumous edition, 1966: 110 (including 30 on "Japan" paper and 80 on wove paper)
Credit Purchase
Object number 299.1951
Portfolio Faces (Gesichter)
Department Drawings and Prints

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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann

German, 1884–1950 218 works online

Max Beckmann dreamed up a world of actors, cabaret singers, heroes, and thugs, whose dramas unfold on city streets, at masquerades and carnivals, and in candlelit chambers.

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