Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1918, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 11 x 10 1/8" (27.9 x 25.7 cm); sheet: 17 3/4 x 14" (45.1 x 35.6 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 3 known state proofs and 3 known trial proofs; Posthumous edition, 1966: 110 (including 30 on "Japan" paper and 80 on wove paper)

Credit Line:

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Glaser 118. Gallwitz 108 b. Hofmaier 137 II B b.

MoMA Number:

260.1940

Themes:

Portraits

Techniques:

Intaglio