THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
Lovers I (Liebespaar I) from Faces (Gesichter)
- Date:
- (1916, published 1919)
- Medium:
- One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 3/8 x 11 3/4" (23.8 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 1/2" (29.8 x 36.9 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 proof and 3 known trial proofs; Posthumous edition, 1966: 110
- Credit Line:
- Purchase
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 81. Gallwitz 65 b. Hofmaier 88 II B b.
- MoMA Number:
- 288.1951
- Themes:
- Sex, War
- Techniques:
- Intaglio