Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Lovers I (Liebespaar I) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1916, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 9 3/8 x 11 3/4" (23.8 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 1/2" (29.8 x 36.9 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, laid.

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 proof and 3 known trial proofs; Posthumous edition, 1966: 110

Credit Line:

Purchase

Copyright:

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Reference:

Glaser 81. Gallwitz 65 b. Hofmaier 88 II B b.

MoMA Number:

288.1951

Themes:

Sex, War

Techniques:

Intaglio