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Lydia by Max Beckmann, 1945, Pen and ink drawing mounted on paper, offered Sep 2024Photo © Kornfeld — view this lot on Kornfeld ↗

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Lydia

Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950) · 1945

Unsold / did not meet reserve

Estimate CHF 60,000 (≈ $70,212) (≈ £53,831) (≈ €63,736)

Offered at Kornfeld and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.

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Medium
Drawing (ink) · Works on paper all drawing results →
As published: “Pen and ink drawing mounted on paper”
Support
Paper
Signed / inscribed
Signed and dated
Category
Drawings
Dimensions
31.7 x 25 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 282: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries</P><P>Live Auction (282)
Date
September 12, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
243
Estimate
CHF 60,000 – — (≈ $70,212) (≈ £53,831) (≈ €63,736)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 28, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Directly from the artist to
  • Rudolf Heilbrunn (according to a diary entry by Mathilde Q. Beckmann mentions the sale on 30 June 1946), who acquired the drawing for a previously unknown "friend"
  • Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, acquired there on 22 December 1974 from
  • Kornfeld & Cie, formerly Kornfeld and Klipstein, from there on 12 January 1983 to
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (4)
  • Bielefeld/Tübingen 1977/1978, Kunsthalle/Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen 1903-1950, cat. no. 174
  • Frankfurt 1978, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Max Beckmann, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen 1903-1950, cat. no. 174
  • Cologne 1984, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann, cat. no. 99
  • Bern 1989, Kunstmuseum, Von Goya bis Tinguely, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus einer Privatsammlung [Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld], cat. no. 148, ill. p. 263
Literature (1)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Stephan von Wiese, Max Beckmann, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1903-1950, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, cat. no. 174

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