Max Beckmann
Dressing room1921

Not on view

Drypoint or lithograph print in black ink on cream paper, two figures — a bald man covering his mouth and a woman in a patterned cap — rendered in bold, gestural lines with heavy cross-hatching

Drypoint or etching with bold cross-hatching; at left, a man rests his hand against his face near an easel; at right, a seated woman in a corset and dotted headband looks away, surrounded by stacked canvases; cursive signature in lower right.

Artist or Maker: Max Beckmann
Title: Dressing room
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1921
Medium: Drypoint on handmade paper
Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in. (20.64 x 14.76 cm); Sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 7/8 in. (53.02 x 37.78 cm)
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.19b
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.
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.
Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
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.
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Max Beckmann
Dressing room1921

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Max Beckmann
Title: Dressing room
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1921
Medium: Drypoint on handmade paper
Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in. (20.64 x 14.76 cm); Sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 7/8 in. (53.02 x 37.78 cm)
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.19b
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.
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.
Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
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.