THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
Evening (Self-Portrait with the Battenbergs) [Der Abend (Selbstbildnis mit den Battenbergs)] from Faces (Gesichter)
- Date:
- (1916, published 1919)
- Medium:
- One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 7/16 x 7" (23.9 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 1/2" (30.4 x 24.1 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 1 known state proofs and 3 known trial proofs; Posthumous edition, 1973: 205 (including 40 on "Japan" paper numbered through XL/XL; 150 on wove paper, numbered through 150/150; 5 hors commerce on "Japan" paper, numbered HCI-HCV; and 10 hors commerce on wove paper, numbered HC1-HC10)
- Credit Line:
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 84. Gallwitz 67. Hofmaier 90 II B b. Rifkind 131.
- MoMA Number:
- 294.1951
- Themes:
- City Life, Portraits
- Techniques:
- Intaglio