Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Happy New Year 1917 (Prosit Neujahr 1917) for the portfolio Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

1917 (published 1919)

Medium:

Drypoint

Dimensions:

plate: 9 5/16 x 11 11/16" (23.7 x 29.7 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 5/8" (29.8 x 37.2 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, laid.

Publisher:

Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich

Printer:

The artist, Frankfurt

Edition:

100 (including 40 printed before steel-facing on "Japan" paper, and 60 printed after steel-facing on laid paper); plus 6 known state proofs [this ex. state II] and 4 known trial proofs

Credit Line:

Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 98. Gallwitz 86. Hofmaier 108 II.

MoMA Number:

311.1948

Themes:

City Life, Dance & Leisure

Techniques:

Intaglio