Pandora's Box
Max Beckmann
1936 and 1947
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gouache on paper mounted on hardboard
Dimensions
overall: 48.5 x 61.1 cm (19 1/8 x 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Charles Parkhurst
Accession Number
1981.81.11
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...