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Max Beckmann
Frau mit Kerze, 1920.
Woodcut
Starting bid: € 1,500 / $ 1,545
Frau mit Kerze. 1920.
Woodcut.
Signed. From an edition of 100 copies on laid paper, aside from 50 copies on Japon. On laid paper. 30.3 x 15.3 cm (11.9 x 6 in). Sheet: 53 x 42 cm (20,8 x 16,5 in).
Published by R. Piper & Co., Munich. [MH].

• The woman depicted is Minna Beckmann-Tube, the artist's first wife.
• Other copies of this print are in, among other places, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin
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PROVENANCE: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.
Private collection (since 1954).
Galerie Margret Heuser, Düsseldorf.
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired from the above in 2006).

LITERATURE: James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his Prints, Bern 1990, vol. 1, no. 171 III B c (of III B d).

In good condition. With light mount staining and two to three small pinholes in the sheet edges. Small handling marks and isolated foxing stains in the white margin. A faint vertical in bottom right that does not impair the image. A crush fold in bottom left.