Sale: 457 / Modern Art II, Dec. 07. 2017 in Munich Lot 78

 

78
Max Beckmann
Kinder am Fenster, 1922.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,700
Sold:
€ 3,375 / $ 3,645

(incl. surcharge)
Kinder am Fenster. 1922.
Drypoint.
Hofmaier 237 II B b (of B d). Signed, numbered by Günther Franke. From an edition of 50 Roman numbered copies. On light Japon. 32.1 x 22.5 cm (12.6 x 8.8 in). Sheet: 42,1 x 36,5 cm ( 16,5 x 13,3 in).
Released by Verlag R. Piper & Co., Munich 1922. [JS].

PROVENANCE: Galerie Boisseree (with gallery label on frame covering).
Private ownership Southern Germany.

The sheet was made in commemoration of scenes from his childhood. Beckmann wrote in his diary on 14 September 1945: "At night the Rokin [the street in Amsterdam that Beckmann lived and worked on from 1937 to 1947] is brightly lit and it felt like when I was a child living in Leipzig, looking out on the illuminated streets with Lixer at night" (quote after Hofmaier, p. 606).



78
Max Beckmann
Kinder am Fenster, 1922.
Drypoint
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,700
Sold:
€ 3,375 / $ 3,645

(incl. surcharge)