Reclining Nude

1. Rudolf Freiherr von Simolin, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Seeseiten, July 15, 1929 [Göpel and Göpel 1976, confirmed as well by letter from Christiane Zeiller, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Dec. 17, 2002; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his daughter Baroness Rudi de Saint-Paul, 1945 [this and the following, letter from Eberhard Kornfeld, Galerie Kornfeld, Dec. 21, 2000; copy in curatorial file]; sold through Gutekunst und Klipstein to Morton D. May (died 1983), St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 12, 1956–70 [letter from Morton D. May, Nov. 6, 1956 and receipt, Nov. 12, 1956; copies in curatorial file and New York 1970]. Regis Collection, by 1984 [Munich 1984]; sold through the Lafayette Gallery, New York to Richard Feigen and Co., New York, 1988 [receipt, June 8, 1988; email from Francis Beatty, July 6, 2018; copies in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, June 8, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, Max Beckman-Ausstellung, July 3 -27 1930, no. 14, as Liegende Frau.
• Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Max Beckmann: Das Gesamte Werk, August 3 -31,1930, no. 85, as Liegende Frau.
• Paris, Galerie de la Renaissance, Max Beckmann, March 16-April 15, 1931, no. 27, as Nu couché.
• Brussels, Galerie "Le Centaure," Exposition Max Beckmann, May 16-28, 1931, no. 13, as Nu couché.
• Munich, Galerie Gunther Franke, Max Beckmann: 75 Gemälde einschliesslich der Amsterdamer Zeit, 21 June-20 August 1946, no. 59.
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Beckmann zum Gedächtnis. 1884-1950, 1951, no. 73, as Liegender Akt.
• Braunschweig, Germany, Kunstverein Stadtisches Museum und Haus Salve Hospes, Max Beckmann, 1884-1950, 25 October-22 November 1953, no. 41 as Liegender Akt; traveled to Bremen, Germany, Kunsthalle, November 29, 1953-January 3, 1954.
• Kunsthaus Zürich, Max Beckmann, November 22, 1955-January 8, 1956, no. 46, as Liegender
• Kunsthalle Basel, Ausstellung Max Beckmann, January 14-February 12, 1956, no. 39, as Liegender Akt.
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Max Beckmann, March 14-May 7, 1956, no. 33, as Liggend naakt.
• St. Louis, Pius XII Memorial Library, St. Louis University, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, February 14-July 4, 1960, no. 49 (ill.) as Lying Nude.
• Denver, The Denver Art Museum, German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, 1960, no. 57 as Lying Nude; traveled to Los Angeles, University of California, January 8-February 19, 1961; San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1961; Chicago, The Art Institute, August 11-September 24, 1961; Youngstown, Penn., Butler Institute of American Art, 1962; Akron, Ohio, Akron Art Institute, 1962; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1962; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, June 1962; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962.

• J. B. Neumann and G. Franke, eds., Max Beckmann, The Artlover Library (New York and Munich, 1931), vol. 1, p. 30.
• Herbert Read, Art Now: An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture, London, 1936, pl. 14, as Nude.
• Franz Roh, Max Beckmann, Munich, Verlag Kurt Desch Munchen, 1946, p. 3, as Liegende.
• Benno Reifenberg and Wilhelm Hausenstein, Max Beckmann (Munich: 1949), p. 72, no. 280, as Liegender Akt.
• Curt Seckel, Maßstäbe der Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, 1967, as Liegender Akt.
• Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemalde, vols. 1 and 2 (Bern, 1976), pp. 222-23, no. 308, fig. 108.
• "Reclining Nude, 1927," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, no. 1 (2002): 95-96.
• Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Nicholas Baer, Burcu Dogramaci, Herbert Kiesel, Sabine T. Kriebel, Janina Nentwig, Matthias Schirren, Änne Söll, The New Berlin, 1912-1932, exh. cat. (Lanoo Publishers, Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium, 2019), pp. 235, cat. 234 (color ill.) as Liegender Akt (Reclining Nude).

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