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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.10
People
Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Seated Woman Shading her Face
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Frau mit beschattetem Gesicht
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213386

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and black chalk on off-white modern laid paper
Dimensions
irregular: 60 x 45 cm (23 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.
  • inscription: lower right, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: For Perry Rathbone // Beckmann // April 18 // 1949
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 6.II[?] . 49 // St. L.
  • watermark: l.r. edge
  • watermark: Original hand linen / PNH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Max Beckmann, gift; to Perry Rathbone (1949-1998) gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Rathbone
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.10
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Works from Private Collections, exh. cat., Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, MA, 1960), n.p., cat. 141
  • Carla Hoffmann-Schulz and Judith C. Weitz, ed., Max Beckmann: Retrospective, exh. cat., St. Louis Art Museum and Prestel-Verlag (St. Louis, MO and Munich, Germany, 1984), p. 373, cat. no. 201
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 77
  • Jutta Schutt, ed., Beckmann and America, exh. cat., Städel Museum and Hatje Cantz (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2011), p. 209, cat. 89, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Works from Private Collections, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, 04/23/1960 - 05/14/1960
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • Max Beckmann and America, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 10/07/2011 - 01/08/2012

Verification Level

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