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Max Beckmann
The evening: Self-portrait with the Battenbergs (Der Abend: Selbstbildnis mit Battenbergs)1916

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Drypoint or etching with energetic black lines on cream paper, showing three figures and a small black cat in a compressed interior scene, with a signature in the lower right

Max Beckmann, The evening: Self-portrait with the Battenbergs (Der Abend: Selbstbildnis mit Battenbergs), 1916, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Title
The evening: Self-portrait with the Battenbergs (Der Abend: Selbstbildnis mit Battenbergs)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1916
Medium
Drypoint on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9 7/16 x 7 in. (23.97 x 17.78 cm); Sheet: 12 x 9 3/16 in. (30.48 x 23.34 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.15
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
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.

  • Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn