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Max Beckmann

Bildnis eines Türken (Portrait of a Turk)

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Beckmann

1884 - 1950

Bildnis eines Türken (Portrait of a Turk)


signed and dated lower right: Beckmann / F 26

oil on canvas

canvas: 26 1/2 by 17 7/8 in. 67.3 by 45.4 cm

framed: 34 3/4 by 25 5/8 in. 88 by 65 cm

Painted in Frankfurt in 1926.

Estate of the artist;
Thence by descent to Mathilde Q. Beckmann, New York, 27 December 1950; 
Richard L. Feigen.
J. B. Neumann, Artlover, New York 1930, vol. 3, n.p., reproduced;
P. Beckmann, ed., Max Beckmann. Sichtbares und Unsichtbares, Stuttgart 1965, n.p., reproduced;
E. and B. Göpel, eds., Max Beckmann, Katalog der Gemälde, Bern 1976, vol. I, cat. no. 249, p. 182; vol. II, no. 249, reproduced plate 89;
K. Gallwitz, U. M. Schneede and S. von Wiese, eds., Max Beckmann letters, vol. I, Munich and Zurich 1993; vol. II, Munich and Zurich 1994;
A. Tiedemann, ed., Max Beckmann Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, https://beckmann-gemaelde.org/249-bildnis-eines-tuerken, no. 249 (accessed on August 20, 2021).
Dresden, Städtischer Ausstellungspalast, Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung. Jahresschau deutscher Arbeit, 1926;
New York, S.P.R. Galleries, Modern German Art, 1930;
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Max Beckmann. Gemälde, 1933;
St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Max Beckmann 1948. Retrospective Exhibition, 1948-1949;
St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Federation Exhibition, 1949;
Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, Max Beckmann. Das Porträt. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1963, no. III;
Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie, Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Max Beckmann. Frankfurt 1915–1933. Eine Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag, 1983-1984, no. 43; 
Rosyln Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Works by Max Beckmann, 1984-1985, no. 23;
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Max Beckmann. Paintings and Drawings, 1985;
Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Dix/Beckmann. Mythos der Welt, 2013-2014;
Venice, Museo Correr; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-33, 2015-2016;
New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Max Beckmann from Private Collections, 2018.