DrawingsGerman20th century

Double Portrait (Max and Quappi Beckmann)

1944

Artists

Max BeckmannArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and graphite on modern laid off-white paper

Culture

German

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

sheet: 40.6 × 27.9 cm (16 × 11 in.) image: 37.8 × 23.2 cm (14 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

The artist; [Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York], sold; to Perry and Euretta Rathbone (1946-2003), by descent; to Belinda Rathbone, Cambridge, MA (2003-2021), gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.

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