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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR56.270
People
Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
The Embrace
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Umarmung
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1922
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223504

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Drypoint printed in black ink on cream wove paper
Technique
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 42.8 x 25.7 cm (16 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
sheet: 53.3 x 38.3 cm (21 x 15 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r. of platemark: Beckmann

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Hofmaier 236 IV B c

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Louis W. Black
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
BR56.270
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
on "velin"

Publication History

  • James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his Prints: Volume 2: Numbers 180-373, Gallery Kornfeld (Bern, Switzerland, 1990)

Exhibition History

  • Max Beckmann Prints, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge

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