Portrait La Duchessa "di Malvedi"
Findings on the reverse:
A yellowed, partially torn off label at the top centre of the stretcher: "GFM / Max Beckmann / Duchessa di Malvedi / Öl Frankfurt 1926 / Format: 27 ...66,5 cm", next to it a white rectangular label: "20. Duchessa di Malvedi / 66,5 : 27 cm / Bez. Beckmann Spotorno 26 / La Duccessa di Malvedi / R.H. 235 / Sammlung Günther Franke, München", below a small white sticker with a jagged edge: "Museum of Modern Art / LOAN / 64.353 / Franke", next to it handwritten in blue: "64.353 / 46", below the almost completely detached Flechtheim sticker: "...RLIN W .../ 6 / Unterschrift?", below a stamp: "Utsilling? Kunstnernes Hus Oslo / Jan 1932 No. 6", below a yellowed sticker: "Kunsthaus Zürich / Künstler: Max Beckmann / Titel: Duchessa di Malvedi, 1926 / Besitzer: Galerie Günther Franke, München / Katalog-Nr. 29", below handwritten in red: "L B / 2917" below a white sticker with jagged edge and emblem (stork with worm in its beak, one leg raised): "Dienst voor schone Kunsten S-Gravenhage / Kunstenaar: Max Beckmann / Dat. 1956 / H 66,5 W 27 / Titel: Duchesse di Malvedi 1926 / Cat. No. 22 / Inzender: Galerie Guenther Franke, Muenchen", below handwritten in blue: "...43", on the stretcher lower left a white sticker: "Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus / Ausstellung Max Beckmann / Leihgeber: Sammlung Günther Franke, München / Kat.- No. 21 Portrait of Duchessa di Malvedi", to the right the remnant of a Gustav Knauer Berlin sticker: "1253 / Kunst-Abteilu", illegible handwriting in blue on the top left of the stretcher, below in blue: “III”, below a yellowed sticker: "M. Beckmann / 321 / Malvedi", below white sticker with jagged edge: "Liste Nr. 25 / Günther Franke, München / Duchessa di Malvedi 1926", below BStGS inventory: “14372”, below handwritten in blue: "B 8844", below grey sticker with jagged edge: "956".
latest 1927 - probably 1932, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, acquired from the artist,
probably 1932 - n.d., Graphisches Kabinett J. B. Neumann, New York, acquired together with Graphisches Kabinett Günther Franke, Munich from Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin,
n.d., probably 1932 - 28 May 1974, Graphisches Kabinett Günther Franke, Munich, acquired from Graphisches Kabinett J. B. Neumann, New York,
since 28 May 1974, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, acquired as a donation from Günther Franke, Munich
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
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80637 München
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