Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 54. Bildnis eines Türken (Portrait of a Turk).

Max Beckmann

Bildnis eines Türken (Portrait of a Turk)

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Beckmann

1884 - 1950

Bildnis eines Türken (Portrait of a Turk)


signed and dated lower right: Beckmann / F 26

oil on canvas

canvas: 26 1/2 by 17 7/8 in. 67.3 by 45.4 cm

framed: 34 3/4 by 25 5/8 in. 88 by 65 cm

Painted in Frankfurt in 1926.

Estate of the artist;
Thence by descent to Mathilde Q. Beckmann, New York, 27 December 1950; 
Richard L. Feigen.
J. B. Neumann, Artlover, New York 1930, vol. 3, n.p., reproduced;
P. Beckmann, ed., Max Beckmann. Sichtbares und Unsichtbares, Stuttgart 1965, n.p., reproduced;
E. and B. Göpel, eds., Max Beckmann, Katalog der Gemälde, Bern 1976, vol. I, cat. no. 249, p. 182; vol. II, no. 249, reproduced plate 89;
K. Gallwitz, U. M. Schneede and S. von Wiese, eds., Max Beckmann letters, vol. I, Munich and Zurich 1993; vol. II, Munich and Zurich 1994;
A. Tiedemann, ed., Max Beckmann Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, https://beckmann-gemaelde.org/249-bildnis-eines-tuerken, no. 249 (accessed on August 20, 2021).