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Drypoint etching. Impression size 23.9x17.8 cm (9½x7") on a larger sheet, approximately 30x24.5 cm (11¾x9¾"). Tipped to matting. One of 60 on laid paper.

Signed at the lower right, publisher's embossed stamp below. Plate 10 from Beckmann's 1919 portfolio ​Gesichter (Faces). Glaser 84; Gallwitz 67; Hofmaier 90 II B b. Provenance: The estate of Aaron Sopher, Baltimore artist and associate of Max Beckmann and George Grosz.

Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950) was a painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. Beckmann achieved great success during the years of the Weimar Republic but his fortunes changed with the rise to power of the Third Reich. His work was considered degenerate by Adolph Hitler and Beckmann was dismissed from his teaching position at the Art School in Frankfurt. He left Germany for the Netherlands and later the United States.