THE COLLECTION
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