Seated Boy

Prints and Drawings

1918

Max Beckmann
German, 1884-1950

Status: On loan to Neue Galerie New York in New York City for Max Beckmann: Formative Years, 1915-1925
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Beckmann
Title: Seated Boy
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1918
Medium: Graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 50.4 × 32.9 cm (19 7/8 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1958.15
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Stephan von Weise, Max Beckmanns Zeichnerisches work 1903-1925 (Dussledorf, 1978), pp. 133 and 214, no. 403 (ill.).
Karoline Hille, Spuren der Moderne: Die Mannheimer Kunsthalle von 1918 bis 1933 (Berlin, 1994), pp. 321 and 380.

Mannheim, Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, “Max Beckmann – das gesammelte Werk,” 1928, cat. 126 (?).
Frankfurt, Germany, Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, “Max Beckmann,” July 9-August 12, 1955, cat. 16.
Pfälzisch Landesgeurbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern, “Max Beckmann,” September 29-October 29, 1956, cat. 16.
Frankfurt, Germany, Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, “Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Plastik des 20 Jahrs,” 1956-1957, cat. 20.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, “Max Beckmann,” February 25-April 23, 1984, cat. 154, cat. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and Judith C. Weiss, et. al.; traveled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May 18-July 29, 1984; the St. Louis Art Museum, September 7-November 4, 1984; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 9, 1984-February 3, 1985.
New York, Neue Galerie, “Max Beckmann: Formative Years, 1915-1925”, October 5, 2023 - January 15, 2024.

Sold by Zinglers Kabinett, Frankfurt, to the Kunsthalle Mannheim [Lugt 1781E], 1924 [former inventory number G1952; according to records of the Kunsthalle Mannheim]; sequestrated Aug. 28, 1937 by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (EK 6173); sold by Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1941 [records of the Kunsthalle Mannheim and an email from Hedda Finke of May 28, 2020]. Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath (opened 1947), by 1955 [Frankfurt 1955]. Sold by Allan Frumkin, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

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