Auction 289: Modern Art | 5 June 2019
Max Beckmann

City Night

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Auction 289
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Max Beckmann
1884 Leipzig – New York 1950
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Portfolio with 7 líthographs on fine cream japanese laid paper. (1920). Up to c. 21 x 15.5 cm (sheetsize c. 31 x 24.5 cm). One of 100 on the portfolio roman numbered copies of the deluxe edition. Signed at the lower right as well as lower middle. Published by Piper Verlag, Munich 1920. In original half linen portfolio with typographic title lable. Overall dimensions c. 36,5 x 37 x 1 cm.
Individual sheet titles: Title-page, Drinking song, City night, Bitterness, Suburban morning, Furnished room, The sick one.

Result: € 7,500*

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Hofmaier 164-170 B (von C).

Description

Das Portfolio begleitete die Luxusausgabe des Buches “Stadtnacht” mit 20 Gedichten von Lili von Braunbehrens. Beckmanns Darstellungen illustrieren 6 dieser Gedichte. Titel der einzelnen Blätter: Titelblatt, Trinklied, Stadtnacht, Verbitterung, Vorstadtmorgen, Möbliert, Die Kranke. – Alle Blätter am linken Blattrand verso punktuell fest ins O.-Passepartout montiert. Papier schwach wellig, mit vereinzelten kleinen Quetschfalten sowie leichtem Abdruck des Passepartoutinnenrandes. Passepartouts teils schwach gebräunt, Mappe mit leichten Gebrauch- und Altersspuren. Insgesamt in guter Erhaltung.

Period

Modern Art

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