Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak), 1934

East Building, Mezzanine — Gallery 217-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 141 × 72.5 cm (55 1/2 × 28 9/16 in.)

framed: 162.56 × 93.98 × 5.08 cm (64 × 37 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

Accession Number

2006.164.1

Artists / Makers

Max Beckmann (painter) German, 1884 - 1950

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Inscription

lower right: Beckmann B[for Berlin] 34

Provenance

(Curt Valentin Gallery, New York), in 1954. Stephan Lackner [1910-2000], Santa Barbara, California, in 1955. (Justin K. Thannhauser, New York); sold 1957 to Morton D. May [1914-1983], St. Louis, through at least 1970. (Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London). Arnold A. [1916-2014] and Joan R. [1919-2019] Saltzman, Sands Point, New York; gift (partial and promised) 2006 to NGA; gift completed 2013.

Associated Names

Buchholz Gallery, New York
Lackner, Stephan
Marlborough Fine Art
May, Morton D., Mr. and Mrs.
Saltzman, Arnold, Mr. and Mrs.
Thannhauser, Justin K.

Exhibition History

1938: Max Beckmann. Gemalde und Graphik, Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, 1938, no. 4.

1938: Max Beckmann, Kunsthalle, Bern, 1938, no. 16.

1938: Max Beckmann, Kunstverein, Winterthur, 1938, no. 18.

1954: Max Beckmann, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1954, no. 5, as The Green Robe.

1955: Max Beckmann, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; San Francisco; Pasadena, 1955, no. 11.

1960: German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Art Museum, Denver, followed by a tour to ten additional venues, 1960-1962, no. 66.

1960: Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Pius XII Memorial Library, St. Louis University, 1960, no. 58.

1967: German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1967, no. 19.

1968: Deutsche Expressionisten aus der Sammlung Morton D. Day, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, followed by a tour to five additional venues, 1968-1969, no. 11.

1970: The Morton D. May Collection of German Masters, The Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York; City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1970, no. 24.

Bibliography

2013: Cooper, Harry. "Max Beckman, Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 49 (Fall 2013): 18, repro.