THE COLLECTION
Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
Night (Die Nacht)
- Date:
- (1914), dated 1916, published 1918
- Medium:
- Drypoint
- Dimensions:
- plate: 8 13/16 x 10 13/16" (22.4 x 27.5 cm); sheet: 12 7/16 x 18 15/16" (31.6 x 48.1 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, wove.
- Publisher:
- Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich
- Printer:
- unknown
- Edition:
- one of 9 known state proofs before the edition of 200 published in the 1918 portfolio Shakespeare-Visions (including 50 printed before steel-facing on "Japan" paper, and 150 printed after steel-facing on laid paper)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Glaser 70. Gallwitz 54. Hofmaier 77 II. Rifkind 130.
- MoMA Number:
- 304.1951
- Themes:
- City Life, Death, Sex
- Techniques:
- Intaglio