About the Artwork
Still Life with Fallen Candles
1929
Max Beckmann
1884-1950
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 22 × 24 3/4 inches (55.9 × 62.9 cm) Framed: 28 7/8 × 31 1/8 × 3 inches (73.3 × 79.1 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
29.322
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Markings
Signed and dated, upper left: Beckmann | F 29
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Provenance
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Max Beckmann. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1964, no. 30 (ill.).
Max Beckmann. Exh. cat., Musee National d'Art Moderne. Paris, 1968, no. 42.
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 42 (ill.).
Rainbird, Sean. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat., Musee National d'Art Moderne. Paris, 2002, pp. 125, 287 (ill.).
Schütt, Jutta, ed. Beckmann & America. Exh. cat., Städel Museum. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2012, pp. 80-81, no. 2 (ill.).
Schick, Karin and Hubertus Gabner, eds. Max Beckmann:The Still Lifes. Exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 2014, pp. 37, 113, 119 (ill.).
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Max Beckmann, Still Life with Fallen Candles, 1929, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.322.
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