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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.171
People
Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Portrait of Zeretelli
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of the Russian Actor, Zeretelli
Alternate Title: Portrait of Zeretelli / The Dancer, Zeretelli / Zeretelli, the Dancer / Portrait of N. M. Zeretelli
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1927
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228822

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 140.34 x 95.89 cm (55 1/4 x 37 3/4 in.)
framed: 162.6 × 118.7 × 8.9 cm (64 × 46 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.l.: Beckmann F

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany; removed from the collection by the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities, August 30, 1937; [Buchholz Gallery, Berlin]; [Buchholz Gallery, New York ( by 1939 - 1940)] sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis MO (1940-1955), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.171
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Retrospective Exhibition of Beckmann, exh. cat., Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Mannheim, Germany, 1928), no. 105
  • Contemporary German Art, exh. cat., Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art) (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 10
  • Max Beckmann, exh. cat., Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1942), no. 6
  • Libby Tannenbaum, "Beckmann: St. Louis Adopts the International Expressionist", Art News (May 1948), vol. XLVII, no. 3, pp. 20-22, p. 22
  • Perry T. Rathbone, "Midwest Internationals", Art News (October 1948), vol. XLVII, no. 6, pp. 20-21, 56-57, p. 21
  • Max Beckmann Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1948), no. 16, pp. 31-32, reproduced p. 58
  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 12-13, fig. 36, ill. (b/w) plate section
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, ed., Deutsche Kunst des 20. jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1983), reproduced in b/w pl XI, 7, p. 215
  • Tobia Bezzola and Cornelia Homburg, Max Beckmann and Paris: Matisse Picasso Braque Léger Rouault, exh. cat., Taschen (Cologne, Germany, 1998), reproduced in color p. 55
  • Beckmann: Centre Pompidou, exh. cat., Editions du Centre Pompidou (Paris, France, 2002), p. 105, reproduced in b/w
  • Sean Rainbird, ed., Max Beckmann, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2003), pp. 146-147, 287, cat. no. 86, ill. (color)
  • Barbara Buenger, Of 'Truths Impossible to Put into Words.' Max Beckmann Contextualized, ed. Rose-Carol Washton Long and Maria Makela, Peter Lang (New York, 2009), pp. 184-190, fig. 49, ill.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Classic Modern: the Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 194, fig. 9.4
  • Lynette Roth, Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage, exh. cat., ed. Kunsthalle Bremen and Museum Barberini, Prestel (Munich, London, New York, 2017), pp. 115, 211, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Retrospective Exhibition of Beckmann, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 05/01/1928 - 05/31/1928
  • Contemporary German Art, Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, 11/02/1939 - 12/09/1939
  • 20th Century Art, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 08/01/1941 - 09/30/1941
  • [Max Beckmann exhibition], Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 01/02/1942 - 01/27/1942
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1947, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, 01/01/1947 - 12/31/1947
  • A St. Louis Private Collection, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 06/01/1947 - 11/01/1947
  • Max Beckmann Retrospective Exhibition, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 05/01/1948 - 05/31/1948; Busch-Reisinger Museum, 12/06/1948 - 01/07/1949
  • A Tribute to Curt Valentin, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/14/1955 - 02/14/1955
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Catherine Viviano Gallery, 1957, Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, 09/01/1957 - 09/30/1957
  • Max Beckmann, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/01/1964 - 11/15/1964; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/14/1964 - 01/31/1965; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 03/12/1965 - 04/11/1965; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, 05/10/1965 - 07/04/1965; Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 07/15/1965 - 09/09/1965; Tate Britain, London, 09/25/1965 - 11/08/1965
  • Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/22/1968 - 03/17/1968
  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
  • Max Beckmann: Die Frankfurter Jahre, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 11/21/1983 - 02/19/1984
  • Max Beckmann: Retrospective, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 02/25/1984 - 04/22/1984; Nationalgalerie Berlin, 05/15/1984 - 07/29/1984; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 09/07/1984 - 11/04/1984; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/09/1984 - 02/03/1985
  • Hinter der Buhne (Backstage): Max Beckmann 1950, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 07/20/1990 - 09/19/1990; Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/10/1990 - 01/13/1991
  • Max Beckmann and Paris, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 02/02/1999 - 05/05/1999
  • Max Beckmann, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 06/25/2003 - 09/30/2003
  • 32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 10/22/2015
  • Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 09/30/2017 - 02/04/2018; Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 02/23/2018 - 06/10/2018

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