print
- Museum number
- 1982,0724.27.8
- Title
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Object: Theater
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Series: Gesichter (Faces)
- Description
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Plate 8: Two faces, one smiling wearing pointed hat. 1916
Drypoint, on oriental paper
- Production date
- 1916
- Dimensions
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Height: 124 millimetres
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Width: 174 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a commentary concerning this series see 1982,0724.27(18), text from Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no.128
Text from Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no. 133 [1982,0724.27(8)]
This must be a scene from amateur theatricals. The man in the background must be Ugi Battenberg, while Fridel is recognisable in the right foreground. The third figure (possibly Beckmann himself) wears a mask. In the Munich/Berlin catalogue of 1984 the protagonists an identified as taking the parts of Rigoletto and his daughter Gilda (from Verdi's opera), but no evidence or reason for this assertion is given. In the list of content: his print is given the title 'Mitternacht' (midnight).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984 May-Jul, London, Tate Gallery, 'Beckmann's Carnival'
1984/5 Sep-Jan, BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 133
1992 Mar-May, Manchester Art Gallery, 'The Expressionist Face'
2000 May-Jul, Brighton Mus. & Art Gallery, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 Jul-Sep, Nottingham Castle Museum, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 Oct-Dec, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, 'Carnivalesque'
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,0724.27.8
