Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Descent from the Cross (Kreuzabnahme) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 12 1/16 x 10 3/16" (30.7 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 9/16" (45 x 37 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 2 known state proofs and 1 known trial proof; First posthumous edition, 1966: 110 (including 30 on "Japan" paper and 80 on wove paper); Second posthumous edition, 1989: 250 (for the deluxe edition of the illustrated book Die Apokalypse)

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Bertha M. Slattery

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 112. Gallwitz 102. Hofmaier 131 II B b.

MoMA Number:

176.1951

Themes:

Death, Religion

Techniques:

Intaglio