Sketches Illustrating Faust

in or after 1925

Max Beckmann

Artist, German, 1884 - 1950

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: 139 graphite drawings on the blank interleaves of a 1925 Bremer Presse (Munich) edition of Goethe's "Faust" (Zweite Teil)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

  • Dimensions

    page size: 21.7 x 14.2 cm (8 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
    accessory size: 22.7 x 14.5 cm (8 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.64.67

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Max Beckmann in Amsterdam: 1937-1947, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2007, 376, 386 ("Helena" was displayed).

  • Max Beckmann, Exile in Amsterdam. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2007, 376, 394 ("Mephistopheles" was displayed).

Bibliography

2007

  • Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam. Exh. cat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2007: 376, 386, 394, no. 92.

Inscriptions

center on title page, 3 illegible lines in graphite

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