Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Lovers II (Liebespaar II) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 8 9/16 x 10 3/16" (21.8 x 25.9 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:

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; First posthumous edition, 1966: 110 (including 30 on "Japan" paper and 80 on wove paper); Second posthumous edition, 1990: 250 (for the deluxe edition of a reprint of the illustrated book Die Fürstin)

Credit Line:

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 107. Gallwitz 97. Hofmaier 126 II B b.

MoMA Number:

289.1951

Themes:

Sex

Techniques:

Intaglio