Self-Portrait

Artist Max Beckmann German, 1884–1950, active in the United States 1947–1950

Date1932

MediumWatercolor and charcoal on paper

Dimensions24 3/4 x 18 7/8 in. (62.9 x 47.9 cm)
Frame: 37 3/16 x 29 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (94.5 x 75.2 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.4

On View

On view

ProvenanceW. R. Valentiner, Los Angeles, CA, by 1952 [1]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [2]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] LACMA inventory 8/27/54, #23
[2] L.58.12.67-VE
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 156, illus. (b-w) 228, fig. 156.

Tobacco and Smoking in Art (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art 1960), cat. no. 32, illus. (b-w) 122.

The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1963), 275.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 78, illus. (b-w) 61, fig. 23.

A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 7, illus. (b-w).

"Blick auf Beckmann," reproduced in the leaflet from this series, "Max Beckmann" by W. R. Valentiner, no. 25. (Also listed no. 26, Woman with a Parrot).

Fritz Erpel, Max Beckmann: Leben im Werk, Die Selbstbildnisse (Berlin: Henschelverlag, Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1985), cat. no. 141, illus. (color).

Peter Selz, Max Beckmann: The Self Portraits (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1992), illus (color) 58.

Hickory Museum of Art Canvas (November/December 1997), illus. (b-w) 1.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 91.

Melissa Clement, "Portraits tell stories of people's inner, outer lives," Fayetteville Observer Times (July 17, 1998), 22, illus. (b-w).

Huston Paschal, entry for Self-Portrait, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 220, illus. (color).

North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), detail (b-w) 18.

Thomas Döring and Christian Lenz, Max Beckmann, Selbstbildnisse: Zeichnung und Druckgraphik (exhibition catalogue) (Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 2000), cat. no. 86, illus. (color).

Mayen Beckmann, Siegfried Gohr, and Max Hollein, eds., Max Beckmann: The Watercolors and Pastels (exhibition catalogue) (Frankfurt: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2006), cat. no. 56, illus. (color) 151, and detail (color) frontispiece.

Jill Lloyd, Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn (New York: Neue Galerie, 2008), briefly discussed 44, 46, illus. (color) 43 (as Self-Portrait with Cigarette in Front of the Easel).

Huston Paschal, entry for Self-Portrait, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 460, illus. (color) 461.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, "Max Beckmann," 1948.

Beverly Hills, Paul Kantor Gallery, "W.R. Valentiner Collection-German Expressionists," 1956.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 156, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Tobacco and Smoking in Art," October 14-December 4, 1960, cat. no. 32, illus. (b-w) 122.

Detroit, MI, J.L Hudson Gallery, "The W.R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition," November 18-January 12, 1964, cat. no. 2.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Drawings and Watercolors," Summer 1969, cat. no. 7, illus. (b-w).

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, "Max Beckmann - Watercolors and Drawings," January 16-December 11, 1977; Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, March 17-May 21, 1978.

Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University, "German Expressionist Works on Paper," February 15-March 15, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "German Works on Paper," October 20. 1983-August 20, 1989.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "German Watercolors, 1920-1932," May 30-August 20, 1989.

Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, "Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait," November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure.

Munich, Neue Pinakothek, "Max Beckmann - Selbstbildnisse," November 17, 2000-January 28, 2001; Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, February 22-May 6, 2001, cat. no 86, illus. (color) p. 267.

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Max Beckmann: The Watercolors and Pastels," March 3-May 28, 2006, cat. no. 56, illus. (color) 151 and detail (color) frontispiece.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "John Brooks and German Expressionism," November 4, 2024-present.

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