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21 N Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

”Stillleben mit Orchideen und Birnen”. 1946

Oil on canvas. 90,5 × 90,5 cm (35 ⅝ × 35 ⅝ in.). Inscribed on the reverse of the canvas in black felt-tip pen by Mathilde Quappi Beckmann: „Stilleben mit Orchideen und Birnen“ painted By Max Beckmann, Amsterdam 1946. Mathilde Quappi Beckmann, New York 1950. On the stretcher labels of the Galerie Curt Valentin, New York, and of the exhibitions Boston 1957, Boston/New York 1964/65 and Hamburg/Frankfurt a. M. 1965 (see below). Catalogue raisonné: Tiedemann/Göpel 709 (online catalogue raisonné). [3180] Framed

Provenance

Studio Max Beckmann / Mathilde Quappi Beckmann (gift of the artist) / Beckmann family / Private Collection, USA / Private Collection, Switzerland

EUR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000

USD 1,100,000 - 1,650,000

Auction 363

Thursday, November 28th 2024, 6:00 PM

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Exhibition

European Masters of Our Time. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1957, cat. no. 9, w. ill. / Max Beckmann. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Museum of Modern Art, and Chicago, Art Institute, 1964/65, cat. no. 63, w. ill. / Max Beckmann, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Hamburg, Kunstverein, and Frankfurt a.M., Kunstverein, 1965, cat. no. 59, w. ill. / Max Beckmann, Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Work. London, Tate Gallery, 1965, catt. no. 62 / Max Beckmann. Gemälde – Aquarelle – Zeichnungen – Skulpturen aus dem Nachlass Mathilde Q. Beckmann und anderen Sammlungen. Berlin/Kampen (Sylt), Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1997

Literature and illustration

Benno Reifenberg and Wilhelm Hausenstein: Max Beckmann. Munich, R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1949, cat. no. 590 / Peter Beckmann (ed.): Max Beckmann. Sichtbares und Unsichtbares. Stuttgart, Belser Verlag, 1965, ill. p. 103 / Peter Selz: Max Beckmann. in exh. cat.: Max Beckmann. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1964, p. 86/87, w. ill. / Erhard und Barbara Göpel: Katalog der Gemälde. 2 vols. Bern, Kornfeld und Cie, 1976, here vol. I, cat. no. 709, and vol. II, ill. pl. 259 / Erhard Göpel (ed.): Max Beckmann, Tagebücher 1940–1950. Munich, Piper Verlag, 1984, p. 147, 151 and 152 / Jutta Schütt, Christiane Zeiller: Time-Motion. Ein Kaleidoskop in Bildern und Worten. In: exh. cat.: Beckmann & Amerika. Frankfurt a.M., Städel Museum, 2011, p. 23-51, here p. 39, w. ill. (not exhibited) / Karin Schick: Die Dinge außer uns. Zu einigen Objekten in Beckmanns Stillleben. In exh. cat.: Max Beckmann. Die Stillleben. Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 2014, p. 11-25, here p. 24 and 25, w. ill. / Simon Kelly: »Ein wunderbarer Mensch und Lehrer«. Max Beckmann als Dozent und die Bedeutung des Stilllebens. In exh. cat.: Max Beckmann. Die Stillleben. Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 2014, p. 66-75, here p. 69 (not exhibited) / Anja Tiedemann (ed.): Max Beckmann. Die Gemälde. vol. II. Ahlen (Westfalen), Kaldewei Kulturstiftung, 2021, cat. no. 709, w. ill

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