Art Institute of Chicago

Carnival in Naples

Max Beckmann · 1925, reworked in 1944

Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by the artist, through Curt Valentin, to the Art Institute of Chicago, with funds provided by Margaret Day Blake, Mar. 1948 [letter from Carl Schniewind to Max Beckmann, Mar. 23, 1948, copy in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Mannheim, Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle, "Max Beckmann, Das gesammelte Werk, Gemälde, Graphik, Handzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1905 bis 1927," February 19-April 1, 1928, cat. 161.
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, "Max Beckmann – neue Gemälde und Zeichenungen," January 12-31, 1929, cat. 30.
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, "Max Beckmann," 1929, cat. 55.
Kunsthalle Basel, "Max Beckmann," 1930, no. 109.
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, "Max Beckmann," 1931, cat. 30.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Max Beckmann," January 10-February 22, 1948.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 145, pl. LIV.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Max Beckmann," 1964, no. 87, cat. by Peter Selz, et al.; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Hamburg, "Max Beckmann," 1965, cat. 81.
London, Tate Gallery, "Max Beckmann," 1965, cat. 82.
Paris, Musée National d’Arte Moderne, "Max Beckmann," September 24-October 28, 1968, cat. 114; traveled to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, November 9, 1968-January 6, 1969 and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, January 16-March 2, 1969.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 50 (ill.).

Literature

Christian Lenz, Beckmann und Italien (Frankfurt am Main, 1976), p. 62, pl. 27.
Stephan Von Weise, Max Beckmanns Zeichnersiches Werk (Dusseldorf, 1978), p. 228, no. 562 (ill.).
Karoline Hille, Spuren der Moderne: Die Mannheimer Kunsthalle von 1918 bis 1933 (Berlin, 1994), p. 322.
Max Beckmann Briefe, II (Munich, 1996), pp. 15, 132, 279, 360, 416, and 476 (ill.).
Henri Stitfung and Eske Nannen, Max Beckmann, Seight Quappi (Emden, 1999), p. 14, no. 14 (ill.).
Mayen Beckmann, Siegfried Gohr, and Max Hollein, Max Beckmann: The Watercolors and Pastels: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works in Color on Paper (Frankfurt, 2006), pp. 250-51, no. 104 (ill.).

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