print
- Museum number
- 1982,0724.27.5
- Title
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Object: Liebespaar II (Lovers II)
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Series: Gesichter (Faces)
- Description
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Plate 5: Lovers II; man embracing nude woman on couch, onlookers behind. 1918
Drypoint, on oriental paper
- Production date
- 1918
- Dimensions
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Height: 216 millimetres
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Width: 257 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM11984, no. 137. [ 1982,0724.27(5)]
The plate bears the same title as the 'Lovers' of 1916 (1982,0724.27(4)). The stylistic advance over the two-year period is remarkable.
For a commentary concerning this series, see text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no. 128 [1982,0724.27(18)]
This is plate 5 of 'Gesichter' (see Curator's Comments for 1978,1216.5).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984 May-Jul, London, Tate Gallery, 'Beckmann's Carnival'
1984/5 Sept.-Jan., BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 137
2000 May-July, Brighton Mus. & Art Gallery, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 July-Sept, Nottingham Castle Museum, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 Oct-Dec, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, 'Carnivalesque'
2003 Feb-May, London, Tate Modern, 'Max Beckmann'
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,0724.27.5
