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Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Beckmann

Kaffeehausszene (Coffee House Scene)

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Beckmann

1884 - 1950


Kaffeehausszene (Coffee House Scene)

signed Beckmann, dated 16 Mai 20 and inscribed der braven Bummi (upper right)

charcoal on paper

11 ⅛ by 8 ⅝ in.

28.3 by 21.9 cm.

Executed on 16 May 1920.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Max Beckmann catalogue raisonné of drawings being compiled by Stephan von Wiese.

Gutekunst und Klipstein, Bern, 5 June 1959, lot 40

Richard L. Feigen & Co., Inc., Chicago (acquired in 1965)

Robert B. Mayer, Chicago

Christie's, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 17 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2012, lot 169 (consigned by the family of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Terre Haute, Indiana, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Collector's Choice III, 1964-65

Stephan von Wiese, Max Beckmanns zeichnerisches Werk 1903-1925, Dusseldorf, 1978, no. W453, p. 218