Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann 1884 - 1950 Blick von der Terrasse in Monte Carlo. 1935. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 65 x 95.5 cm (25.5 x 37.5 in). According to Göpel, Beckmann painted this work in Berlin from memory, as there is no evidence that the artist stayed on the French Riviera in either 1934 or 1935. The work is mentioned on the MB List, the artist’s handwritten list, with the title: “View from the Terrace in Monte” for 1934. However, as indicated by the date, the painting was not completed before the following year. [JS] Additional works from the Kropatscheck Collection are offered in our Day Sale on Saturday, December 5, 2026; in our Rare Books auction on Monday, November 23, 2026; and in our Online Sale from January 15 through February 15, 2027. • LONGING Beckmann’s dream of a free and carefree life. • BEST ERA Created in Berlin at the same time as the first triptych “Departure” (MoMA, New York). • INNER EXILE Dismissed from his teaching post in 1933, Beckmann lived a reclusive life in Berlin until his emigration to Amsterdam in 1937. • EXHIBITIONS Most recently featured in “Max Beckmann: Die Landschaften” at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2011/12. • EXCELLENT PROVENANCE Sold directly by the artist to his friend and publisher Reinhard Piper, Munich, in 1936. PROVENANCE: From the artist’s studio (until 1936). Reinhard Piper Collection, Munich (Beckmann’s friend and publisher, acquired directly from the artist in 1936, in the family collection until 2000, Sotheby's, London). Fritz Eugen and Hannemarie Kropatscheck Collection, Hamburg (acquired from the above). EXHIBITION: Max Beckmann: In Memoriam 1884–1950, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, June 8–August 5, 1951. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (on the stretcher with the label, on extended loan from the Piper family collection, 1970–1972). Max Beckmann. Menschen am Meer, Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg, Nov. 9, 2003–Feb. 1, 2004, cat. no. 14, p. 50 (with illu. on p. 51) Max Beckmann. Die Landschaften, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 4, 2011–January 22, 2012, cat. no. 43, p. 148 (with ill. on p. 149). Kunsthalle Hamburg (permanent loan from the Kropatscheck Collection, 2020–2026). LITERATURE: Anja Tiedemann, Kaldewei Cultural Foundation (ed.), Max Beckmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Frankfurt am Main, Online CR no. MB-G 413 (with illu.), https://max-beckmann.org/mb/g/413 (accessed Oct. 10, 2026). Barbara and Erhard Göpel, Max Beckmann. Catalog of Paintings, vol. 1, Bern 1976, catalog no. 413 (with illu. on plate 141). Benno Reifenberg and Wilhelm Hausenstein, Max Beckmann, Munich 1949, CR no. 350 (listed here under the title “Südliche Landschaft (Riviera)”). - Reinhard Piper, Nachmittag. Erinnerungen eines Verlegers, Munich 1950, pp. 47–48. Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, Inventory Catalog, Nov. 1972, p. 1 (with illu.). Klaus Gallwitz, Uwe Schneede, Stephan von Wiese (eds.), Max Beckmann, Briefe. 1925–1937, vol. II, Munich/Zurich 1994, p. 263. Sotheby’s, London, German & Austrian Art Auction, Oct. 18, 2000, lot 243 (with illu.). Barbara Strehle-Akhtar, Wunschträume. Max Beckmann and the Côte d’Azur, in: Exhibition catalog Max Beckmann. Menschen am Meer, Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg 2003, pp. 126–135. - - Further documentation: Nicola Graef, Max Beckmann—A Traveler, TV feature, Arte 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-E6fo3ZkM (accessed Oct. 5, 2026). Christiane Zeiller, Max-Beckmann Archive, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Max Beckmann. Departure, Munich 2022, p. 151. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 17.06 h +/- 20 min.

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