Self-Portrait

1. Curt Valentin, New York, 1947 /49–1955, acquired directly from the artist (letter from Mathilde Beckmann, dated September 14, 1956, in curatorial file); purchased by the Art Institute with funds from Lotta Hess Ackerman and Phillip E. Ringer, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Columbia University (organizer), Modern Portraits: The Self and Others, no. 6, pp. 10-11, ill. p. 11 and cover; traveled to Wildenstein & Co., October 20–November 27, 1976.
• St. Louis Art Museum, Max Beckmann, September 7–November 4, 1984, no. 75, pp. 64–65, 238–39, ill. p. 261.
• Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Max Beckmann: Gemälde 1905–1950, July 21–September 23, 1990, no. 56, p. 158–159 (ill.).
• New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Beckmann in Exile, October 9, 1996–January 5, 1997.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Max Beckmann in Paris, September 25, 1998–January 6, 1999; traveled tp St. Louis Art Musuem, February 5–May 9, 1999.
• Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Max Beckmann, September 10, 2002–January 7, 2003; traveled to London, Tate Modern, February 15 –May 5, 2003 and New York, Museum of Modern Art, June 25–September 30, 2003.

• Max Beckmann, On My Painting (New York, 1941).
• Benno Reifenberg and Wilhelm Hausenstein, Max Beckmann (Munich, 1949), p. 75, no. 368.
• Max Beckmann, Diaries 1940–1950 (Germany, 1955).
• James A. Speyer, "Art News from Chicago," Art News 54, 9 (January 1956): p. 19 (ill.)
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago : A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 20, ill. p. 473.
• Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55, 2 (1961), p. 37.
• Art Institute of Chicago Calendar, 59, 2 (March 1965), p. 5 (ill.)
• El Mundo de los Museos: The Art Institute of Chicago (Madrid, 1967), p. 70 (ill.).
• Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde, vols. 1 and 2 (Bern, 1976), pp. 298–99, no. 459, pl. 159.
• Hildegard Zenser, Max Beckmann: Selbstbildnisse (Munich, 1984), no. 35 (ill.).
• A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 32, cat. 1B2.
• Wood, James N. and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 79 (ill.).

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