Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 480

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MAX BECKMANN
Der Abend (Selbstbildnis mit den Battenbergs).

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1916. 230x172 mm; 9 1/8x6 3/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3). Edition of 60. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Verlad der Marées Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich, with the blind stamp lower right. From Gesichter. A superb, richly-inked impression with strong burr.

Beckmann's self-portrait is in the upper left, he has pictured himself with his friends Ugi and Fridel Battenberg. Hofmaier 90.