Max Beckmann
Still Life with Large Shell
1938
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Max Beckmann
Still Life with Large Shell
1938
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 31 5/8 in. (50.2 x 80.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of William A. Dickey, Jr.
Object Number
1955.77
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; William A. Dickey, Jr.; Buchholz Gallery, NY; Curt Valentin estate sale; Curt Valentin; the artist
Curt Valentin Gallery, NY, "Max Beckmann", January-February 1954, cat. 14, ill. p. 2.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Modern Art for Baltimore", February 23-March 17, 1957.
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, "German Expressionism", November 6-December 11, 1960.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture", July 9-September 23, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Museum's Collection", March 14-April 5, 1981.
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, "Max Beckmann", October 21, 1984.
Kunsthaus Zurich, "An Encounter with Modernism: Max Beckmann in Paris: Works 1924-1950", * (title keeps changing on loan forms--see variant: "A Studio in Paris: Beckmann Encounters Matisse, Picasso and Thier Contemporaries") September 25, 1998-January 6, 1999; tour to St. Louis Art Museum, February 2, 1999-May 4, 1999.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit", Jan. 29 -Sept. 14, 2014 (pulled early to send to Hamburger Kunsthalle exhibition).
Hamburger Kunsthalle, "Max Beckmann. The Still Lifes", September 05, 2014-January 18, 2015.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Modern Art for Baltimore", February 23-March 17, 1957.
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, "German Expressionism", November 6-December 11, 1960.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture", July 9-September 23, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Museum's Collection", March 14-April 5, 1981.
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, "Max Beckmann", October 21, 1984.
Kunsthaus Zurich, "An Encounter with Modernism: Max Beckmann in Paris: Works 1924-1950", * (title keeps changing on loan forms--see variant: "A Studio in Paris: Beckmann Encounters Matisse, Picasso and Thier Contemporaries") September 25, 1998-January 6, 1999; tour to St. Louis Art Museum, February 2, 1999-May 4, 1999.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit", Jan. 29 -Sept. 14, 2014 (pulled early to send to Hamburger Kunsthalle exhibition).
Hamburger Kunsthalle, "Max Beckmann. The Still Lifes", September 05, 2014-January 18, 2015.
"BMA News," Dec. 1955, ill. p. 16.
'Object of the Week,' "Sunday Sun" (Brown Sec.), Baltimore, Mar. 18, 1956, ill.
Karin Schick and Hubertus Gaßner, "Max Beckman: The Still Lifes," (Munich: Prestel Publishing), 2014, cover and p. 149 (color ill.).
Tiedemann, Anja. Max Beckmann: The Paintings. Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2021. Volume II, p. 113-115 (color ill.)
Inscribed: FACE: BRC, signed in black paint, '(Beckmann?)/39'
On View: Cone Wing, Gallery 5
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