Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000703
Lot 125000703 
Raumbeispiel
125000703
Max Beckmann
Selbstbildnis, 1918/19.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 6,000 - 8,000
$ 6,780 - 9,040
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Selbstbildnis. 1918/19.
Lithograph.
Signed and dated. Copy from an edition of unknown print run, in addition to the edition of 11 copies. On wove paper (with the watermark “Original Hand Linen P & H”). 37.1 x 27 cm (14.6 x 10.6 in). Sheet: 47 x 30 cm (18,5 x 11,8 in).
Sheet 1 from the portfolio “Die Hölle” (Hell). Printed by C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main. Published by I.B. Neumann, Berlin, autumn 1919. [AW].
• Rare print from the first printing state.
• Title page of the portfolio “Die Hölle” (Hell), in which Beckmann addresses his experiences during World War I.
• The lithographic cycle is considered a key work in his graphic oeuvre, and copies can be found in important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
PROVENANCE: Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (2002: Galerie Kornfeld).
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. 12.
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 139 I B (of III).
Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, catalogue raisonné no. 113.
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Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 229th auction, June 2, 2002, lot 232 (illustrated on plate 81).
Lithograph.
Signed and dated. Copy from an edition of unknown print run, in addition to the edition of 11 copies. On wove paper (with the watermark “Original Hand Linen P & H”). 37.1 x 27 cm (14.6 x 10.6 in). Sheet: 47 x 30 cm (18,5 x 11,8 in).
Sheet 1 from the portfolio “Die Hölle” (Hell). Printed by C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main. Published by I.B. Neumann, Berlin, autumn 1919. [AW].
• Rare print from the first printing state.
• Title page of the portfolio “Die Hölle” (Hell), in which Beckmann addresses his experiences during World War I.
• The lithographic cycle is considered a key work in his graphic oeuvre, and copies can be found in important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
PROVENANCE: Karin & Rüdiger Volhard Collection, Bad Homburg (2002: Galerie Kornfeld).
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. 12.
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 1, Bern 1990, cat. no. 139 I B (of III).
Klaus Gallwitz, Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Karlsruhe 1962, catalogue raisonné no. 113.
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Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 229th auction, June 2, 2002, lot 232 (illustrated on plate 81).
125000703
Max Beckmann
Selbstbildnis, 1918/19.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 6,000 - 8,000
$ 6,780 - 9,040
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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