Max Beckmann:
Picture "West Park" (1950), framed
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Picture "West Park" (1950), framed
Max Beckmann:
Picture "West Park" (1950), framed

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reproduction, collotype on paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 103 x 55 cm (h/w)

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Picture "West Park" (1950), framed
Max Beckmann: Picture "West Park" (1950), framed

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Picture "West Park" (1950), framed

Beckmann visited Central Park almost daily, after working in his studio on the Upper West Side in New York. The painting made in the last year of his life shows a scene of the western part, which was close to him.
Original: 1950, oil on canvas, 139.5 x 61 cm (h/w), private collection.

High-quality edition in fine collotype on uncoated paper. Framed in black and silver solid wood frame with passe-partout, glazed. Size 103 x 55 cm (h/w).

About Max Beckmann

1884-1950

Max Beckmann, born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1884, seems like a solitary figure in the avant-garde of his time. While the emerging modern movement gradually led painting programmatically towards complete non-objectivity, Beckmann aligned himself with the art-historical tradition and consciously linked his art to the painting of the late 19th century.

A recurring motif in his works is the sea, which he once described in an interview as his "old friend". In his early works, he portrays it as a mysteriously vital space of existential experience, while during the National Socialism era, it transforms into a motif of freedom, departure, and escape.

In 1910, Beckmann was elected as a board member of the Berlin Secession, the youngest ever to achieve this status, and later his art was declared "degenerate" by the Nazi regime. Today, Beckmann is considered one of the most significant representatives of German Expressionism. His works are exhibited in many major modern art museums and sell for top prices at auctions.

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