Self-Portrait

Max Beckmann · 1936 (cast 1951)

You're looking at Self-Portrait — a sculpture by Beckmann, nineteen thirty-six (cast nineteen fifty-one). Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 13" (36.8 x 28.6 x 33 cm) · Credit Gift of Curt Valentin

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Girl in Fairground Caravan, Sculpture 23

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Jean Crotti's Bust of Duchamp, Mask, David Wojnarowicz, Morphologie du rêve #5 from the series Sama Guent Guii, Paul Robeson, Jeannette (II)

More by Max Beckmann here: Family Picture, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette