THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
Spring (Frühling) from Faces (Gesichter)
- Date:
- (1918, published 1919)
- Medium:
- One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 3/4 x 7 13/16" (29.9 x 19.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 14 3/4 x 11 7/16" (37.5 x 29 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, slightly textured, laid.
- Printer:
- Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich, 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 1 known state proof and 3 known trial proofs
- Credit Line:
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 114. Gallwitz 104. Hofmaier 133 II B b.
- MoMA Number:
- 296.1951
- Themes:
- City Life
- Techniques:
- Intaglio