Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Spring (Frühling) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 11 3/4 x 7 13/16" (29.9 x 19.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 14 3/4 x 11 7/16" (37.5 x 29 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, laid.

Printer:

Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich, 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 1 known state proof 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 114. Gallwitz 104. Hofmaier 133 II B b.

MoMA Number:

296.1951

Themes:

City Life

Techniques:

Intaglio