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Grisebach
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60 Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

„Stürmische Nordsee (Wangerooge)“.

Oil on canvas. 59 x 77 cm (23 ¼ x 30 ⅜ in.). Signed, inscribed and dated lower right: Beckmann B[erlin] 37. Catalogue raisonné: Göpel 466. Framed

Provenance

Formerly collection Stephan Lackner, Santa Barbara, California (acquired in circa 1938, thence by descent to the present owner)

EUR 820,000

 

- 1,200,000

USD 0

 

- 1,520,000

Sold for:

1,397,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

Selected Works, 27 November 2014

Exhibition

Max Beckmann. An Exhibition. Oakland, The Mills College Art Gallery, 1950, cat. no. 8 („Beach with Piles“) / Max Beckmann. Santa Barbara, Museum of Art; San Francisco, Museum of Art, and Pasadena, Art Institute, 1955, cat. no. 24 („North Sea with Cabins“) / Max Beckmann. Santa Barbara, University Art Gallery, University of California, 1959, cat. no. 17 / Max Beckmann. Oils, Watercolors, Lithographs. Downey, The Downey Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 15 / Max Beckmann. Gemälde und Aquarelle der Sammlung Stephan Lackner, USA. Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus dem Besitz der Kunsthalle Bremen. Bremen, Kunsthalle, [and in modified selection:] Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein e.V.; Vienna, Wiener Secession; Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, and Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 1966/67, cat. no. 4, ill. (erroneously under cat. no. 21)

Literature and illustration

Charles S. Kessler: The Vision of Max Beckmann. Arts Yearbook, vol. 4, 1961, pp. 133-140, here p. 137 / Lagerkatalog: Moderne Kunst. Campione near Lugano, R. N. Ketterer, 1963, unpag., fill-page colour ill. (erroneously identified by the Reifenberg/Hausenstein 1949 catalogue raisonné no. 383) / Max Beckmann, Retrospektive. Munich, Haus der Kunst; Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Saint Louis, Art Museum, and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, 1984/85, p. 262 (mentioned) / Susanne Rother: Beckmann als Landschaftsmaler. Munich, scaneg, 1990 (= Beiträge zur Kunstwissenschaft, vol. 34), p. 86 / Klaus Gallwitz, Uwe M. Schneede and Stephan von Wiese (eds.): Max Beckmann, Briefe. 3 vols. Munich and Zurich, Piper, 1993–1996.here vol. II (1994): 1925–1937, ed. by Stephan von Wiese, p. 458 (note to letter 660) / Dietrich Schubert: Max Beckmanns Strand- und Meeres-Gemälde bis zur Emigration nach Amsterdam 1937. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 1997, issue 1, pp. 90-114, here p. 113, note 53 / exh. cat.: Stephan Lackner, der Freund Max Beckmanns. Munich, Max Beckmann Archiv, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, 2000, p. 60, ill. 33 (photo of the 1955 exhibitionin Santa Barbara, third painting from the left), p. 111 / exh. cat.: Max Beckmann, Menschen am Meer. Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, 2003/04, p. 156 (mentioned) / Max Beckmann. Exil in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, and Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, 2007/08, p. 71 and p. 72, colour ill. 30 (mentioned) / exh. cat.: Max Beckmann. Die Landschaften. Basel, Kunstmuseum, 2011/12, p. 19, colour ill. 2, p. 20 and p. 39, note 23 (mentioned) / Moritz Rinke: Ein letzter Blick auf Deutschland. Im Sommer 1937 malt Max Beckmann sein letztes Bild vor der Emigration. Grisebach. Das Journal. fall 2014, pp. 4-11, colour ill. p. 8/9