Artwork overview
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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.
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 15.8 x 10.5 x 8 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1984.64.47.1-27
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Catalogue Raisonné
Zeiller/Presler 2010, 500-525
Associated Artworks
See all 27 artworks
Nicht identifizierte Skizze, Karussell? (Sketch of Merry-go-round, Perhaps) [p. 69]
Max Beckmann
1918
Mehrfigurige Kompositionsskizze (Figural Composition) [p. 9]
Max Beckmann
1918
Architekturstudien (House Exterior Scene) [p. 19]
Max Beckmann
1918
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].