Max Beckmann
Selbstbildnis mit Griffel (Self-Portrait with Stylus), Plate 19

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Artist Max Beckmann German, 1884–1950

PublisherPublished by Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., MunichGerman

CultureGerman

Titles

Selbstbildnis mit Griffel (Self-Portrait with Stylus), Plate 19
from the portfolio Gesichter (Faces)

Date1917, published 1919

PlaceGermany

MediumDrypoint on Kozo paper

DimensionsPlate: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 13 1/8 in. (43.5 × 33.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2006.1337

Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Max Beckmann Retrospective", 1984, St. Louis Art Museum and Prestel-Verlag, Munich.

"Me. My. Self. Eye. ; Modern and Contemporary Self-Portraits from the MFAH Department of Prints and Drawings," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Lower Brown Corridor, May 17-September 20, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed and dated in graphite, lower left: Selbstporträit 1917
Recto: Signed in graphite, lower right: Beckmann

Recto: Signed in graphite, lower right: Beckmann

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Catalogue raisonnéHofmaier 105 II (probably B, as possible 1916), Maas (as 1916)

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