The Argonauts [middle panel]
1949/1950
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
middle panel: 205.8 × 122 cm (81 × 48 1/16 in.) framed: 212.41 × 128.27 × 5.08 cm (83 5/8 × 50 1/2 × 2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann
Accession Number
1975.96.1.b
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...