Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Main River Landscape (Mainlandschaft) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 9 7/8 x 11 3/4" (25.1 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 14 11/16 x 14 7/16" (37.3 x 36.6 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, laid.

Publisher:

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

Printer:

Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich

Edition:

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 three known trial proofs

Credit Line:

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 109. Gallwitz 99 b. Hofmaier 128 IV B b. Rifkind 133.

MoMA Number:

290.1951

Themes:

City Life

Techniques:

Intaglio