Max Beckmann - Bildnis Mink - Fine Art Auctions

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Bildnis Mink. 1917.
Lithograph.
Signed, dated and titled "Potrait Frau B.". From an edition of probably just 3 copies. On firm, structured wove paper. 24.5 x 24.1 cm (9.6 x 9.4 in). Sheet: 40,7 x 31,6 cm (16 x 12,4 in).

• Impressive and intense portrait lithograph of the artist's first wife, Minna Beckmann-Tube (1881-1964).
• Extremely rare - one of only three known copies.
• Once part of the collection of renowned German publisher Reinhard Piper (1879-1953).

PROVENANCE: Reinhard Piper Collection, Munich.
Eflriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden.
Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (since 2013: Hauswedell & Nolte).
In family ownership ever since.

EXHIBITION: Schießbude und Irrenhaus. Die Mappenwerke von Max Beckmann 1919-1922, August Macke Haus, Bonn, February 6–May 3, 2015, cat. no. 4.

LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 121 II (of II).
Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, cat. no. 20.
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Karl & Faber, Munich, 149th auction, May 31, 1979, lot 1179 (illustrated on plate 58).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 444th auction, June 5, 2013, lot 180 (illustrated on p. 31).

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