Max Beckmann
Study for the battle of the Amazons1910

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Max Beckmann
Germany, also active Netherlands and United States,1884-1950
Title: Study for the battle of the Amazons
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1910
Medium: Pencil on heavy card
Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (19.69 x 20 cm)
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number: AC1992.238.7
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance: The artist (1884-1950); Reinhard Piper (1879-1953); estate of Reinhard Piper; sold to [Karl & Faber, Munich] on June 29, 1981 (Lot 75); sold to [Evelyn Hagenbeck Galerie and Verlag, Hamburg] in 1981; sold to the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation in 1981; given in 1992 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.