Mar 06, 2014 - Sale 2341

Sale 2341 - Lot 478

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
MAX BECKMANN
Frauenbad.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1922. 400x280 mm; 15 3/4x11 inches, full margins. First state (of 2). Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 150. Signed, titled and inscribed "Probedruck" in pencil, lower margin ("Probedruck" erased and only partially visible). Published by R. Piper & Co., Munich. A brilliant impression of this extremely scarce drypoint.


Hofmaier notes only 8 impressions in the first state, two of which are in public collections and one (with watercolor additions) in the collection of the artist's son. Hofmaier 234.