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18 Max Beckmann

Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York

„Tiergarten im Winter“.

Oil on canvas. 75 × 65 cm (29 ½ × 25 ⅝ in.). Signed and dated lower left: Beckmann 37. On the stretcher titled in red: Park i. WINTER. There too a label of the exhibition Basel 2011 / 12 (see below) and the Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York. Catalogue raisonné: Göpel 456. Framed

Provenance

Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York (1940) / Stephan Lackner, Paris / Santa Barbara (1940) / R. N. Ketterer, Campione (1963) / private collection, Baden-Wuerttemberg (acquired 1963, thence by descent to the present owner)

EUR 700,000 - 1,000,000

USD 747,000 - 1,070,000

Sold for:

1,800,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

Selected Works, 1 June 2017

Exhibition

Max Beckmann, Marguerite Frey-Surbek, Martin Christ, Fernand Riard. Bern, Kunsthalle, 1938, cat. no. 42 / Max Beckmann. Winterthur, Kunstverein, in the Museum, 1938, cat. no. 41 / Max Beckmann. Gemälde und Graphik. Zürich, Galerie Aktuaryus, 1938, cat. no. 14 / Max Beckmann Exhibition. Chicago, The Arts Club, 1942, (brochure) no. 26 / Max Beckmann Memorial Exhibition. Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 1951 (no catalogue) / Max Beckmann. Santa Barbara, Museum of Art; San Francisco, Museum of Art, and Pasadena, Art Institute, 1955, cat. no. 17 / Max Beckmann. Meisterwerke 1907–1950. Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1994 / 95, cat. no. 29, with ill. / Max Beckmann, Fernand Léger. Unerwartete Begegnungen. Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 2005, cat. no. 55, p. 67 and ill p. 132 / Max Beckmann. Die Landschaften. Basel, Kunstmuseum, 2011 / 12, cat. no. 46, with illustration

Literature and illustration

Donald Bear in: Santa Barbara News-Press, 28.1.1951 / Lagerkatalog: Moderne Kunst. Campione bei Lugano, R. N. Ketterer, 1963, no page nos. (p. 11), with ill. / Barbara Copeland Buenger: „Was habe ich denn mit Politik zu tun?“ Max Beckmanns Rückkehr nach Berlin 1933–1937. In: Exhibition catalogue: Max Beckmann und Berlin. Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, 2015 / 16, p. 202-216, here p. 213, ill. 5 (not exhibited)