THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
Main River Landscape (Mainlandschaft) from Faces (Gesichter)
- Date:
- (1918, published 1919)
- Medium:
- One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 7/8 x 11 3/4" (25.1 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 14 11/16 x 14 7/16" (37.3 x 36.6 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 2 known state proofs and three known trial proofs
- Credit Line:
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 109. Gallwitz 99 b. Hofmaier 128 IV B b. Rifkind 133.
- MoMA Number:
- 290.1951
- Themes:
- City Life
- Techniques:
- Intaglio