Lot no. 7
Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York). ”Hängematte”. 1942
Oil on canvas. 24 × 36 cm (9 ½ × 14 ⅛ in.). Lower right signed, inscribed and dated (faintly legible): Beckmann A[msterdam] 42. On the upper stretcher bar on the left a label of Galerie Curt Valentin, New York.
Tiedemann 622 (https://beckmann-gemaelde.Org/622-haengematte; query date 21.4.2023).–
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Provenance: Studio Max Beckmann / Erhard Göpel, Munich (taken over as courier 23. March 1943) / Private Collection, Wassenaar (for safekeeping) / studio Max Beckmann (return) / Mathilde Q. Beckmann, New York (until 1986; meanwhile on commission at Curt Valentin) / Beckmann family / Private Collection, Austria
Literature and illustration: Erhard and Barbara Göpel: Katalog der Gemälde. Volume I: Katalog und Dokumentation. Volume II: Tafeln und Bibliographie. Bern, Kornfeld and Cie, 1976, cat. no. 622
<a href="https://www.grisebach.com/fileadmin/downloads/PDFs/S2023/Grisebach_350_7_BECKMANN_EN.pdf">To the accompanying essay</a> by Eugen Blume
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Modern and contemporary paintings
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