Max Beckmann
Château d'If , 1936 (Executed)
Lot #237 |
2017-06-10 |
Ketterer Kunst, Munich
Modern Art I
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
EUR 800,000 - 928,000 (currency of sale)
USD 894,085 - 1,037,138 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Ketterer Kunst
Auction number: 449
Auction name: Modern Art I
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: Munich
Start date: 2017-06-10
Currency: EUR
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 65 x 75.5 cm (25.5 x 29.7 in)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
65
Width In Centimeters:
75.5
Height In Inches:
25.5
Width In Inches:
29.7
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Year notes: Executed in 1936.
Provenance
From the artist's studio. Ilse Leembruggen, The Hague (around 1938). Buchholz Gallery, New York (verso of frame covering with label). Stephan Lackner, New York, later Santa Barbara (as of 1939-1967, with collection stamp on stretcher). Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, 1967. Dr. Emanuel Wolff, Huntingdon Valley, USA (as of 1967, with collection label on stretcher). Private collection (inherited from aforementioned).
Condition
This artwork is in overall very good condition.
Exhibited
Max Beckmann, Buchholz Gallery, New York 1939, cat. no. 6. Max Beckmann. Oils, watercolors, lithographs, The Downey Museum of Art, Downey, 8 January - 19 February 1960, cat. no. 7. Max Beckmann. Gemälde und Aquarelle der Sammlung Stephan Lackner, Kunsthalle, Bremen, 4 September - 30 October 1966, cat. no. 3 (with color illu., with label on covering). Max Beckmann, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 25 September - 28 October 1968/ Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 16 January - 2 March 1969, cat. no. 60. Max Beckmann, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 9 November 1968 - 6 January 1969, cat. no. 58 (with illu., with label on covering). Works by Max Beckmann, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, 21 October 1984 - 13 January 1985, cat. no. 36 (verso of covering with label).
Literature
D.B., Work of the 1930's by Max Beckmann, a distinguished German exile, In: The Art News 37, 1939, no. 24, p.16. Benno Reifenberg und Wilhelm Hausenstein, Max Beckmann, Munich 1949, illu. 62. GĂĽnter Busch, Max Beckmann, In: Mededelingen Gemeentemuseum The Hague 12, 1957, no. 1, p.14. Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst IV, inventory catalog 1967, p. 12, no. 6 (with color illu.).