Dressing Room by Max Beckmann
Etching, 1922.
Art work details
- Original Title :
- Garderobe
- Year of production :
- 1922
- Artist:
- Max Beckmann
- Medium :
- Original print, Drypoint, Etching
- Materials:
- Ink, Paper
- Dimensions :
- plate height: 20.5 cms; plate width: 15.5 cms
- Credit Line :
- Purchased from Mrs Margaret Fisher
- Copyright :
- © DACS 2013.
- Catalogue References:
- Glaser 167. Gallwitz 164. Hofmaier 192 B b. Rifkind 138 2.
- Tags:
- Weimar Republic, Beckmann, Drypoint
Plate 2 of The Fair, a series of ten drypoints published by Maier-Graefe and Reinhard Piper in 1922.
In a cramped interior, two performers apply their make-up, having to share the same tiny table and mirror. The expressions are a mixture of distortion and weariness, the mask of happiness slipping to reveal the grim reality of a life on the move.
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