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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Important Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Nov 2017 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Max Beckmann
  (1884 – 1950, German)
  Hier Ist Geist (Here Is Intellect), 1921
  drypoint on paper; trial proof aside from the edition of 30
  33.5 x 25.5 cm
  published by J. B. Neumann, Berlin; signed lower right: Beckmann
  RELATED WORK: Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.
• Provenance:
  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales
• Exhibited:
  German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 March – 11 July 2011, cat. 413 (another example) ; The Mad Square: modernity in German art 1910 – 37, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 August – 6 November 2011 and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 25 November – 4 March 2012
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Glaser, C., (et al.), Max Beckmann, R. Piper, Munich, 1924, p. 183 ; Gallwitz, K., (ed., et al.), Max Beckmann Briefe, R. Piper, Munich, 1993 – 1996, p. 177 ; Hofmaier, J., (ed.), Max Beckmann: catalogue raisonné of his prints, Gallery Kornfeld, Bern, 1990, vol. II, p.536 cat. 208 II A; Strecker, J. ,The Mad Square: modernity in German art 1910 – 37, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, pp. 63 (illus.), 301; Figura, S. and Jelavich, P., German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, cat. 143, p. 188 (illus.)
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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