Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)
1934
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oil on canvas
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.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman
Accession Number
2006.164.1
About the Artist
Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884-1950) stands as one of the most significant German painters of the twentieth century, a complex artist who bridged Expressionism and the New Objectivity while forging a deeply personal visual language. Born in Leipzig into a middle-class family, Beckmann's artistic journey spanned from academic classicism through the traumatic crucible of World War I to a mature s...