THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
The Large Operation (Grosse Operation) from Faces (Gesichter)
- Date:
- (c. 1914, published 1919)
- Medium:
- One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2" (29.9 x 44.5 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 20 9/16" (37 x 52.2 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 10 known state proofs and 2 known trial proofs
- Credit Line:
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 71. Gallwitz 55 c. Hofmaier 81 VI B b.
- MoMA Number:
- 300.1951
- Themes:
- War
- Techniques:
- Intaglio