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Max Beckmann
Adam and Eve1917

Not on view
Drypoint or etching on cream paper, two standing figures — a nude woman and a gaunt clothed man with a cane — rendered in angular, heavily hatched black lines
Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Germany, also active Netherlands and United States,1884-1950
Title
Adam and Eve
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917
Medium
Drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9 3/8 x 7 in. (23.81 x 17.78 cm); Sheet: 15 x 12 1/2 in. (38.1 x 31.75 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Rabbi William M. Kramer
Accession Number
M.91.322.35
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.

  • Benson, Timothy O., et al. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.

Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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