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Max Beckmann
The Barker (Self-Portrait)1921

Not on view
Drypoint etching portrait of a heavyset, nearly bald man, head and shoulders, looking directly at viewer with hand raised to chin; partially visible sign reads 'CIRCUS BECKM'
Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Germany, also active Netherlands and United States,1884-1950
Printer
Kunstverlag Franz Hanfstaengl
Title
The Barker (Self-Portrait)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Drypoint on handmade paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in. (33.66 x 25.88 cm); Sheet: 20 5/8 x 14 7/8 in. (52.39 x 37.78 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.19a
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.