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Max Beckmann
Sleeping Athlete1946

Not on view
Ink drawing on white paper of two intertwined nude figures grappling, with bold outlines and dense crosshatching, and a possible stringed instrument near the lower right

Max Beckmann, Sleeping Athlete, 1946, 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
Sleeping Athlete
Place Made
United States, New York
Date Made
1946
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 10 3/8 x 11 in. (26.35 x 27.94 cm) irregular; Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (40 x 30 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.6c
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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn