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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  76
• Lot Description:
  Max Beckmann
  (1884-1950)
  Selbstbildnis, from Gesichter (1918)
  27.5 x 25.5 cm
  signed 'Beckmann' lower right
  drypoint on paper, from the total edition of 100 (there was an edition of 40 on Japan paper before steel-facing & an edition of 60 on laid paper after steel-facing), published by the Verlag der Mar&eacutees Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich, 1919, with their blindstamp
• Provenance:
  Max Beckmann, Munich; Private Collection; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney (label verso); Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2011
• Exhibited:
  The Age of Expressionism 1900-1929: Beckmann, Grosz, Kollwitz & Schmidt-Rottluff, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 26 July - 27 August 2011, no. 4, illustrated; The Long Dark Night: German Expressionism 1914-1945, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 20 February - 8 May 2016, illustrated
• References:
  James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 1990, cat. no. 137, (illustrated, another impression); Marissa Bateman, The Age of Expressionism 1900-1929: Beckmann, Grosz, Kollwitz & Schmidt-Rottluff, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 2011, n.p. (illustrated); Simon Gregg and Brett Stone, The Long Dark Night: German Expressionism 1914-1945, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 2016, n.p. (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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