About This Artwork

Max Beckmann
German, 1884-1950

Carnival in Naples, 1925 (reworked in 1944)

Brush with India ink, black crayon and white chalk on brown wove paper
1,105 x 695 mm
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1948.5

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Mannheim, Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle, "Max Beckmann, Das gesammelte Werk, Gemälde, Graphik, Handzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1905 bis 1927," February 19-April 1, 1928, cat. 161.

Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, "Max Beckmann – neue Gemälde und Zeichenungen," January 12-31, 1929, cat. 30.

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, "Max Beckmann," 1929, cat. 55.

Kunsthalle Basel, "Max Beckmann," 1930, no. 109.
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, "Max Beckmann," 1931, cat. 30.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Max Beckmann," January 10-February 22, 1948.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 145, pl. LIV.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Max Beckmann," 1964, no. 87, cat. by Peter Selz, et al.; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Hamburg, "Max Beckmann," 1965, cat. 81.

London, Tate Gallery, "Max Beckmann," 1965, cat. 82.

Paris, Musée National d’Arte Moderne, "Max Beckmann," September 24-October 28, 1968, cat. 114; traveled to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, November 9, 1968-January 6, 1969 and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, January 16-March 2, 1969.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 50 (ill.).

Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.

Kunsthalle Bieledfeld, "Max Beckmann, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen 1903-1950," October 16-December 11, 1977, cat. 113; traveled to the Kunsthalle Tübingen, January 7-February 26, 1978 and the Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankurt am Main, March 18-May 21, 1978.

Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Max Beckmann Frankfurt, 1915-1933," 1983-84, cat. 107.

Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst, "Max Beckmann Retrospective," February 25-April 22, 1984, cat. 161, cat. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and Judith C. Weiss et. al.; traveled to the Nationalgalerie Berlin, May 15-July 29, 1984; The St. Louis Art Museum, September 7-November 4 1984; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 6, 1984-February 3, 1985.

Publication History

Christian Lenz, Beckmann und Italien (Frankfurt am Main, 1976), p. 62, pl. 27.

Stephan Von Weise, Max Beckmanns Zeichnersiches Werk (Dusseldorf, 1978), p. 228, no. 562 (ill.).

Karoline Hille, Spuren der Moderne: Die Mannheimer Kunsthalle von 1918 bis 1933 (Berlin, 1994), p. 322.

Max Beckmann Briefe, II (Munich, 1996), pp. 15, 132, 279, 360, 416, and 476 (ill.).

Henri Stitfung and Eske Nannen, Max Beckmann, Seight Quappi (Emden, 1999), p. 14, no. 14 (ill.).

Mayen Beckmann, Max Beckmann: The Watercolors and Pastels: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works in Color on Paper (Frankfurt, 2006).

Ownership History

Max Beckmann, to at least 1944 [inscription]. Sold by Buchholz Gallery, New York to the Art Institute, 1948.