Self-Portrait with a Stylus, from the portfolio Faces

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): Beckmann

R. Piper & Co., Munich (from 1919); (sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 12, 1999, no. 1587, sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Max Beckmann Prints," July 14, 2000–January 7, 2001, no catalogue.

Curt Glaser et al. Max Beckmann. Munich, 1924, p. 81, no. 82.

Klaus Gallwitz, ed. Max Beckmann: Die Druckgraphik. Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Exh. cat., Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, 1962, unpaginated, no. 82.

Harold Joachim in Peter Selz. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. New York, [1964], p. 153, no. 134, ill. p. 112 (not this edition; collection Museum of Modern Art, New York), calls it "Self-Portrait with Burin" and dates it 1917.

Fritz Erpel. Max Beckmann: Leben im Werk. Die Selbstbildnisse. Munich, 1985, pp. 31, 318, no. 68, ill. p. 15 and pl. 65, dates it 1917.

James Hofmaier. Max Beckmann: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Vol. 1, Numbers 1–179. Bern, 1990, pp. 201–3, 280–83, no. 105, ill. and ill. front cover, calls it "Self-Portrait with Stylus (Selbstbildnis mit Griffel)" and dates it "1916?".

Wendy Weitman in Max Beckmann Prints from the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 1992, pp. 9, 12, 17, 93, 98, pl. 29 (not this edition), calls it "Self-Portrait with Stylus" and dates it 1917.

Ute L. Tellini. "Max Beckmann's 'Tribute' to Rosa Luxemburg." Woman's Art Journal 18 (Fall 1997–Winter 1998), p. 25 n. 7, dates it 1917.

Sabine Rewald in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1999–2000." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 58 (Fall 2000), p. 64, ill.

Christian Lenz in Thomas Döring and Christian Lenz. Max Beckmann: Selbstbildnisse, Zeichnung und Druckgraphik. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Bonn, 2000, pp. 144, 315, no. 32, ill. p. 145 (not this edition; private collection), dates it 1916–17.

Thomas Döring in 1914... Schrecklich kriegerische Zeiten. Ed. Wulf Otte, Heike Pöppelmann, and Ole Zimmermann. Exh. cat., Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum. Braunschweig, 2014, p. 144, ill. p. 143 (color; not this edition; collection Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig), dates it 1917.