Beckmann Sketchbook 21

1918-1922

Max Beckmann

Associated Names
Max Beckmann

Artist, German, 1884 - 1950

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    sketchbook with 27 sketches in graphite and charcoal on graph paper. Notations are in graphite, pen with blue or brown ink, and purple colored pencil.

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

  • Dimensions

    book: 15.8 x 10.5 x 8 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.64.47.1-27

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zeiller/Presler 2010, 500-525

Associated Artworks

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Mehrfigurige Kompositionsskizze (Figural Composition) [p. 9]

Max Beckmann

1918

Bezeichnete Skizze mit zwei sitzende Figuren (Two Seated Figures) [p. 10]

Max Beckmann

1918

Mehrfigurige Kompositionsskizze (Figural Composition) [p. 11]

Max Beckmann

1915

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Max Beckmann, Peoria; gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2010

  • Zeiller, Christiane, Gerd Presler.Max Beckmann : die Skizzenbücher = the sketchbooks. II. Ostifildern, 2010: 500-525.

Inscriptions

Some of the sketches are dated. There are undeciphered inscriptions on pages 1, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 19 in addition to the 21 pages of pure notation [not deciphered].

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