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Max Beckmann

Grosser Steinbruch in Oberbayern (Large Quarry in Upper Bavaria)

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Beckmann

1884 - 1950

Grosser Steinbruch in Oberbayern (Large Quarry in Upper Bavaria)


signed and dated upper left: Beckmann / O.34

oil on canvas

canvas: 34 1/8 by 46 3/4 in. 86.7 by 118.7 cm

framed: 47 1/4 by 59 1/2 in. 120 by 151 cm

Painted in Ohlstadt in 1934.

Alfred Eisenlohr, Munich, 1941;
Thence by descent to Marie Louise Eisenlohr, Munich, 1952;
From whom acquired by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1971;
From whom acquired by Franz Resch, Gauting, 1973;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, New York, 2001.
H. Klinkel in Stuttgart Zeitung,  Stuttgart, 26 June 1958, n.p.; 
E. and B. Göpel, eds., Max Beckmann, Katalog der Gemälde, Bern 1976, vol. I, cat. no. 392, pp. 265-266; vol. II, cat. no. 392, reproduced plate 131;
Max BeckmannAbseits der Großstadt- oberbayerische Landschaft, exhibition catalogue, Schlossmuseum, Murnau 1998, reproduced p. 56;
Industrie und Natur: Zur Geschichte des Hartsteinwerkes Werdenfels im Murnauer Moos, exhibition catalogue, Schlossmuseum, Murnau 2000, reproduce in color pp. 9-10 and in detail on the front and back cover;
Ich kann wirklich ganz gut male: Friedrich August von Kaulbach - Max Beckmann, exhibition catalogue, Schlossmuseum Murnau, 2002;
R. Smith, "Max Beckmann," in The New York Times, 6 June 2018, p. C16;
A. Tiedemann, ed., Max Beckmann Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, https://beckmann-gemaelde.org/392-grosser-steinbruch-oberbayern (accessed on August 20, 2021).