Catalogue raisonné
BECKMANN – HOFMAIER, James. Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his Prints. 2 vols. Bern 1990. 31,5 : 25,5 cm. 894 pages with 435 illustrations, samples of signatures, 3 concordances and indexes of titles and names. Original clothbound with embossed title and illustrated dust jacket.
The definitive catalogue raisonné which results from an examination of prints in European and American institutional and private collections. It comprehensively describes a multitude of previously unknown states and specifies details of publication, including description of paper and sheet dimensions. All titles are reproduced, occasionally in more than one state. To secure optimal fidelity the illustrations, reproduced at actual dimensions or full-page, were made, to the greatest extent possible, directly from original prints. - Added: Hommage an Beckmann. Eine Privatsammlung. Auktion 225. Bern, Galerie Kornfeld 2000. 102 unn. p. with 44 illustr. - Additional information of new discovered states.
