The Argonauts [right panel]

Max Beckmann

1949/1950

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

right panel: 185.4 × 85 cm (73 × 33 7/16 in.) framed: 190.5 × 91.44 × 5.08 cm (75 × 36 × 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.c

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...

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