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Max Beckmann

Unfinished woodblock carving for Self-Portrait with Naila as Circus Performers Holding Masks and Reclining on a Sea Monster, c. 1923

Not on View

Medium

Crayon and ink on partially carved wood block (unfinished matrix for a woodcut print)

Dimensions

overall: 50 x 39.3 cm (19 11/16 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

Accession Number

1984.64.21

Artists / Makers

Max Beckmann (artist) German, 1884 - 1950

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Provenance

Mrs. Max Beckman, Peoria, gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Beckmann, Max, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2011: Beckmann & America. Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2011, no. 97 (color repro.)(entry by Jutta Schütt).

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

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