drawing
- Museum number
- 1981,0725.33
- Title
- Object: Study for 'Fastnacht'
- Description
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Fourth study for the painting 'Carnival' (Fastnacht) in the Tate, London (T03294); a group of figures, including one walking to left, another seated on ground at right with legs outstretched
Pen and black ink, on thin paper
- Production date
- 1920 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the first of nine known studies, all of the same size, made in 1920 by Beckmann for his great painting 'Fastnacht' or 'Carnival' that is now in the Tate Gallery. The two central figures are Fridel Battenberg and his dealer I.B. Neumann. For a complete study of the paintings and the series of drawings see Sarah O'Brien Twohig, 'Beckmann Carnival', Tate Gallery 1984. The BM subsequently acquired the first and second studies for the series as well (see 1984,1110.2 and 3). 'Fastnacht' is the climax of the festivities held in Germany prior to Lent; the first sketch for the painting is dated 22.2.20, five days after the end of that year's carnival.
Von Wiese nos 435 and 439 (respectively the third and seventh in the sequence) were offered for sale at Karl and Faber, Munich, 14-15 July 2021, lots 723-4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984 May-Jul, London, Tate Gallery, 'Beckmann's Carnival, 1920', no. 4
1986, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
2010-11 Oct-April BM, Picasso to Julie Mehretu (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- The first of a series of prints by Beckmann bought at the Piper sale in Munich
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1981,0725.33