Lot 292 
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Max Beckmann
Jahrmarkt, 1922.
The portfolio comprising ten Drypoint etchings
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Max Beckmann
1884 - 1950
Jahrmarkt. 1922.
The portfolio comprising ten Drypoint etchings.
Each signed. Typographically numbered in the imprint. From an edition of 75 copies. On wove paper (each with the blindstamp of the Marées-Gesellschaft). Up to 34 x 25.8 cm (13.3 x 10.1 in). Sheet: each ca. 53 x 38 cm (20,8 x 14,9 in).
Complete and in original folder with ten drypoint etchings in original mounts, as well as title page, table of contents, and imprint. Text sheets in original binding.
The drypoint etchings printed by Franz Hanfstaengel, Munich. The texts printed by Otto von Holten, Berlin. Printing supervision and title illustration of the text by E. R. Weiss. Published as the thirty-sixth print by the Marées Society, R. Piper & Co., Munich, in the spring of 1922. [AW].
• Complete portfolio in an outstanding and fresh impression.
• Beckmann's edgy forms and expressive gestures culminate in the prints of the 1920s.
• The series “Jahrmarkt” (Fairground) is one of the highlights of Expressionist print art.
• With artists, masks, and the self-portrait as a seer, Max Beckmann created a symbolic world theater.
PROVENANCE: Reinhard Piper Collection, Munich.
Private collection, southern Germany.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 2009 from the above).
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 2, Bern 1990, CR nos. 191 to 200.
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Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, June 4, 2008, 345th auction, lot 169 (with color illustration).
Beckmann chose different plate sizes for this extraordinary series of prints. On June 1, 1921, the artist wrote to publisher Reinhard Piper:
“The copper plates arrived today. I am looking forward to moving from one copper plate to the next. I will finish some of them in Austria, where I also want to visit the Prater near Vienna.”
And a little later to I. B. Neumann, who appears as a fairground barker wearing a fez on sheet 5 of the series:
“Here [in Graz] I am alternating between lazing around and etching .. I think the ‘Jahrmarkt’ will be quite amusing.”
(Quoted from James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 2, Bern 1990, p. 497)
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.16 h +/- 20 min.
1884 - 1950
Jahrmarkt. 1922.
The portfolio comprising ten Drypoint etchings.
Each signed. Typographically numbered in the imprint. From an edition of 75 copies. On wove paper (each with the blindstamp of the Marées-Gesellschaft). Up to 34 x 25.8 cm (13.3 x 10.1 in). Sheet: each ca. 53 x 38 cm (20,8 x 14,9 in).
Complete and in original folder with ten drypoint etchings in original mounts, as well as title page, table of contents, and imprint. Text sheets in original binding.
The drypoint etchings printed by Franz Hanfstaengel, Munich. The texts printed by Otto von Holten, Berlin. Printing supervision and title illustration of the text by E. R. Weiss. Published as the thirty-sixth print by the Marées Society, R. Piper & Co., Munich, in the spring of 1922. [AW].
• Complete portfolio in an outstanding and fresh impression.
• Beckmann's edgy forms and expressive gestures culminate in the prints of the 1920s.
• The series “Jahrmarkt” (Fairground) is one of the highlights of Expressionist print art.
• With artists, masks, and the self-portrait as a seer, Max Beckmann created a symbolic world theater.
PROVENANCE: Reinhard Piper Collection, Munich.
Private collection, southern Germany.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 2009 from the above).
LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 2, Bern 1990, CR nos. 191 to 200.
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Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, June 4, 2008, 345th auction, lot 169 (with color illustration).
Beckmann chose different plate sizes for this extraordinary series of prints. On June 1, 1921, the artist wrote to publisher Reinhard Piper:
“The copper plates arrived today. I am looking forward to moving from one copper plate to the next. I will finish some of them in Austria, where I also want to visit the Prater near Vienna.”
And a little later to I. B. Neumann, who appears as a fairground barker wearing a fez on sheet 5 of the series:
“Here [in Graz] I am alternating between lazing around and etching .. I think the ‘Jahrmarkt’ will be quite amusing.”
(Quoted from James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his prints, vol. 2, Bern 1990, p. 497)
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.16 h +/- 20 min.
292
Max Beckmann
Jahrmarkt, 1922.
The portfolio comprising ten Drypoint etchings
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Buyer's premium and taxation for Max Beckmann "Jahrmarkt"
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The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
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Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
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