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MAX BECKMANN Der Zeichner in Gesellschaft.
Drypoint on cream wove paper, 1922. 328x242 mm; 13x9 5/8 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). Edition of approximately 100. Signed in pencil, lower right, and numbered 10/40 in pencil by Günther Franke, lower left. Published by R. Piper & Co., Munich. A brilliant, richly-inked impression with dark burr.
According to Hofmaier, "The man who draws is the painter and printmaker Rudolf Grossmann (1882-1941), with whom Beckmann probably became acquainted at the Berlin home of Karl and Johanna Loeb. He was known for his compulsive drawing, whether alone or in public . . . The seated and bespectacled figure to the right of Grossmann is the Munich painter Rolf E. von Hoerschelmann (1885-1947)." Hofmaier 230.
