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The paintings of the German artist Max Beckmann are easy to recognise but hard to categorise. Often mislabelled as an Expressionist or else vaunted—to his chagrin—as a leading figure of the Weimar era ...
Max Beckmann, "Paris Society (1925/1931/1947), oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (© 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) In five compact rooms, the seemingly boundless exhibition Max ...
Max Beckmann, “Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket” (1950), oil on canvas, 55 1/8 × 36 inches, Saint Louis Art Museum, Bequest of Morton D. May (© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, ...
The name “Max Beckmann” evokes images of side-show stages crowded with ambiguous acrobats, Fisher Kings, mutilated women, bound and masked figures and the like, often in confrontational, over-sized ...
The immediate response to “Beckmann and Paris” is a classic, brow-smiting, “Of course!” 1 Setting the modern German master’s paintings alongside pictures by the French artists he admired and regarded ...
A self-portrait by Max Beckmann is set to be the runaway success at leading Berlin auction house Grisebach’s sale on December 1, with a whopping estimate of €20 million to €30 million ($20 million to ...
Max Beckmann, Germany’s greatest living artist (before Hitler), was packing to leave Holland, teach at the Chicago Art Institute, when invasion swallowed him in the spring of 1940. Last week, Chicago ...
BERLIN — A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann sold Thursday in Berlin for 20 million euros ($20.7 million), a price that appears to be a record for ...