THE PRICE OF FAME
- Munch, Tiger and Bear
- Dürer, Five Lansquenets
- Bonnard, Dans la Rue
- Vuillard, La Couturiére
- Bellows, The Hold-Up
- Magritte, Oreille-Cloche
- Canaletto, Landscape
- Cezanne, Self-Portrait at the Easel
- Matisse, Repos du Modèle
- Pissarro, Rue Saint-Romaine
- Tiepolo, Three Soldiers
- Rouault, L’Enfant de la Balle
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- after Brueghel, Saint Jerome
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Piranesi, The Villa Albani
- after Rubens, St. Mary Magdalene
- Millet, La Fileuse Auvergnate
- Beckmann, Jacob Wrestles
- Corot, Environs de Rome
- Tissot, Le Matin
- Whistler, Little Dorothy
- Géricault, Cheval Anglais
- Ostade, The Barn
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- Watteau & Thomassin, Femme
- Goya, Nanny’s Boy
- Palmer, Herdsman’s Cottage
- Delacroix, Arabes d’Oran
- Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics
- after Boucher, The Snare
- after da Vinci, Caricature Head
- Baskin, Bird-Man
- after Turner, In the Campagna
- after Raphael, A Muse
- Kirchner, Railway Curve
- Daumier, Eh, Eh ? Petit Gredin…
- Robert, Le Poteau
- Rowlandson, Wood Nymphs
- Doré, Lapplander Peasants
- van Dyck, Portrait of Brueghel
- after Constable, Mill Stream
- Rosa, Woman Walking to the Left
21. Max Beckmann (1884-1950) Jakob Ringt mit den Engel (Jacob Wrestles with the Angel) |
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Jakob Ringt mit den Engel (Jacob Wrestles with the Angel)
Drypoint, 1920, 288 x 222 mm., Hofmaier 179 ii/ii. Fine, rich impression on laid paper with large, slightly uneven margins, from the edition of 200. Impressions of the second state were signed only in the plate; there were 65 pencil signed impressions of the first state. The subject is taken from Genesis 32:25, but Beckmann has mysteriously incorporated in the image the ladder -- from the earlier vision of Jacob in which he saw a ladder from earth to heaven with angels moving up and down. The result is a complex composition, highly expressive and dramatic but hardly idealized, that resembles no other depiction of the story.