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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.

Max Beckmann, Dressing room, 1921, 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
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

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