Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Café Music (Cafémusik) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8" (31.1 x 23.1 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 x 14 9/16" (44 x 37 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 3 known state proofs and 3 known trial proofs

Credit Line:

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 111. Gallwitz 101. Hofmaier 130 III B b.

MoMA Number:

293.1951

Themes:

City Life, Dance & Leisure

Techniques:

Intaglio