The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
Property from the Collection of Albin Schram, Switzerland
MAX BECKMANN | RITTMEISTER VON WERNITZ AUF SEINEM EROBERTEN KOSAKEN (PORTRÄT EINES REITERS MIT MILITÄRISCHER AUSZEICHNUNG (EISERNES KREUZ)) CAPTAIN OF WERNITZ ON HIS CONQUERED COSSACK HORSE (PORTRAIT OF A RIDER WITH MILITARY DECORATION (IRON CROSS))
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MAX BECKMANN
1884 - 1950
RITTMEISTER VON WERNITZ AUF SEINEM EROBERTEN KOSAKEN (PORTRÄT EINES REITERS MIT MILITÄRISCHER AUSZEICHNUNG (EISERNES KREUZ))
CAPTAIN OF WERNITZ ON HIS CONQUERED COSSACK HORSE (PORTRAIT OF A RIDER WITH MILITARY DECORATION (IRON CROSS))
signed Beckmann, dated 5.9.14 and inscribed Rittmeister von Wernitz auf seinem eroberten Kosaken (lower left)
pen and ink and pencil on paper
Unframed: 31 by 43.1cm., 12¼ by 16⅞in.
Executed on 5th September 1914.
This work is sold unframed
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Collection Günther Franke, Munich (by 1960)
Collection Albin Schram, Switzerland
Thence by descent to the present owners
Felix Billeter, Kunsthändler, Sammler, Stifter. Günther Franke als Vermittler moderner Kunst in München 1923–1976, Berlin, 2017