Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000698
Lot 125000698 
Raumbeispiel
125000698
Max Beckmann
Selbstbildnis, 1920.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
$ 4,520 - 6,780
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Selbstbildnis. 1920.
Drypoint.
Signed. From an edition of 100 copies. On wove paper. 19.6 x 14.6 cm (7.7 x 5.7 in). Sheet: 31,9 x 23,5 cm (12,5 x 9,2 in).
Frontispiece for the deluxe edition of Kurt Pfister, Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart, Leipzig 1920. Printed by Meissner & Buch, Leipzig. Published by Klinkhardt und Biermann, Leipzig 1920. [AW].
• Impressive in appearance and with particularly striking lines.
• Frontispiece of the 1920 publication “Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart” (Contemporary German Graphic Artists) by the art historian Kurt Pfister (1895–1951).
• Self-portraits recur throughout the artist's oeuvre.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Ilse Schweinsteiger, Munich.
Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (acquired from the above in 1989).
In family ownership ever since.
EXHIBITION: Spektakel des Lebens. Max Beckmann. Arbeiten auf Papier, Sinclair House, Bad Homburg, October 19–December 9, 2001; Museum Folkwang, Essen, February 1–April 7, 2002; Ulmer Museum, Ulm, April 27–June 30, 2002, cat. no. 72.
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 172 B (of B)
Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, cat. no. 144.
Drypoint.
Signed. From an edition of 100 copies. On wove paper. 19.6 x 14.6 cm (7.7 x 5.7 in). Sheet: 31,9 x 23,5 cm (12,5 x 9,2 in).
Frontispiece for the deluxe edition of Kurt Pfister, Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart, Leipzig 1920. Printed by Meissner & Buch, Leipzig. Published by Klinkhardt und Biermann, Leipzig 1920. [AW].
• Impressive in appearance and with particularly striking lines.
• Frontispiece of the 1920 publication “Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart” (Contemporary German Graphic Artists) by the art historian Kurt Pfister (1895–1951).
• Self-portraits recur throughout the artist's oeuvre.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Ilse Schweinsteiger, Munich.
Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (acquired from the above in 1989).
In family ownership ever since.
EXHIBITION: Spektakel des Lebens. Max Beckmann. Arbeiten auf Papier, Sinclair House, Bad Homburg, October 19–December 9, 2001; Museum Folkwang, Essen, February 1–April 7, 2002; Ulmer Museum, Ulm, April 27–June 30, 2002, cat. no. 72.
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 172 B (of B)
Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, cat. no. 144.
125000698
Max Beckmann
Selbstbildnis, 1920.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 4,000 - 6,000
$ 4,520 - 6,780
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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