Beckmann Sketchbook 18

1917-1920

Max Beckmann

Artist, German, 1884 - 1950

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    sketchbook with 32 sketches in graphite on pink, cream, green, and blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

  • Dimensions

    book: 20 x 14.4 x 5 cm (7 7/8 x 5 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.64.65.1-32

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zeiller/Presler 2010, 432-451

Associated Artworks

See all 32 artworks

Zuschauer (Spectators) [p. 23]

Max Beckmann

1884

Fressender Löwe (Lion Eating) [p. 22]

Max Beckmann

1884

Antiker Krieger mit Helm (Antique Warrior with Helmet) [p. 38]

Max Beckmann

1884

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

  • Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage, Kunsthalle Bremen; Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 2017.

Bibliography

2010

  • Zeiller, Christiane, Gerd Presler.Max Beckmann : die Skizzenbücher = the sketchbooks. II. Ostifildern, 2010: 432-451.

Inscriptions

in later hand, upper center in blue ink on cover label: mostly animals, / monkeys, lions and / hippopotamus, from the zoo + circus

Markings

Stamp in black ink on back cover: 1859 (over monogram, not deciphered)

You may be interested in

Loading Results