Café music from faces

Beckmann, Max (1884-1950)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1918
Height:
31.1 cm  (12 1/4 in.)
Width:
23.1 cm  (9 1/8 in.)
Sheet dimensions 44 x 37cm.
Technique / Medium:
drypoint on paper

Additional titles

Cafémusik von Gesichter

    Item location

  • Museum of Modern Art (New York)
    Prints and Illustrated Books[Museum inv. no.: 293.1951]A A Rockerfeller Fund

Description

A group of people are represented, many of whom appear to be playing stringed instruments. Although the aspect of the instruments suggests violins and cellos, the stylisation of the representation does not permit specific identification of individual instruments.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Stringed instruments [3101] (Many non-specific stringed instruments in a type of stylised orchestral arrangement. Some are bowed. Some with scrolls perhaps intending to represent cellos.)

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
MOMA website

Notes

One of a series of 19 published drypoints. Created 1918, published 1919.

RIdIM record id

3222