Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)

1934

Max Beckmann

Painter, German, 1884 - 1950

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On View

East Building Mezzanine, Gallery 217-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 141 × 72.5 cm (55 1/2 × 28 9/16 in.)
    framed: 162.56 × 93.98 × 5.08 cm (64 × 37 × 2 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.164.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Curt Valentin Gallery, New York), in 1954. Stephan Lackner [1910-2000], Santa Barbara, California, in 1955. (Justin K. Thannhauser, New York); sold 1957 to Morton D. May [1914-1983], St. Louis, through at least 1970. (Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London). Arnold A. [1916-2014] and Joan R. [1919-2019] Saltzman, Sands Point, New York; gift (partial and promised) 2006 to NGA; gift completed 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1938

  • Max Beckmann, Kunstverein, Winterthur, 1938, no. 18.

  • Max Beckmann. Gemalde und Graphik, Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, 1938, no. 4.

  • Max Beckmann, Kunsthalle, Bern, 1938, no. 16.

1954

  • Max Beckmann, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1954, no. 5, as The Green Robe.

1955

  • Max Beckmann, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; San Francisco; Pasadena, 1955, no. 11.

1960

  • German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Art Museum, Denver, followed by a tour to ten additional venues, 1960-1962, no. 66.

  • Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Pius XII Memorial Library, St. Louis University, 1960, no. 58.

1967

  • German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1967, no. 19.

1968

  • Deutsche Expressionisten aus der Sammlung Morton D. Day, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, followed by a tour to five additional venues, 1968-1969, no. 11.

1970

  • The Morton D. May Collection of German Masters, The Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York; City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1970, no. 24.

Bibliography

2013

  • Cooper, Harry. "Max Beckman, Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 49 (Fall 2013): 18, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Beckmann B[for Berlin] 34

Wikidata ID

Q20192946

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