Max Beckmann
(Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York City)
Still life with Fruits and Flowers, c. 1930
Graphite
17 x 25.5 cm
On the verso a woman's head in black chalk, a portrait by Quappi Beckmann of her sister Hedda
PROVENANCE:
Hedda Kaulbach, Ohlstadt
(daughter of Friedrich August Kaulbach, sister of Hilde, later Quappi Beckmann, wife of Max Beckmann since 1925)
Private Collection, Munich
This drawing, one of the few still life drawings by Max Beckmann, is a recent discovery, formerly in the collection of Hedda Kaulbach, Quappi Beckmann's sister.
Hedda Finke and Stephan von Wiese have studied the original, dating it to c. 1930 and will include it in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the drawings by Max Beckmann. According to Mayen Beckmann, the work is related to the painting "Still Life with Large Green Fruits", Saint Louis, WVZ Göpel, No. 754, also available in the online catalog raisonné.
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