Harvard Art Museums > 1955.171: Portrait of Zeretelli Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Portrait of Zeretelli (Max Beckmann) , 1955.171,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 13, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/228822. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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