Film Studio

- 1950
Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, NY, USA [1]

1950 - 1957
Mathilde Q. Beckmann, New York, NY, by inheritance from the artist

1957 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, NY, on consignment from from Mathilde Q. Beckmann [2]

1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [3]

Notes:
[1] Max Beckmann kept lists of most of his paintings which often included the dates that they were worked on and notes on who purchased them. This painting appears on Beckmann's 1933 Berlin list. Beckmann notes that he completed the canvas on July 3, 1933 and lists no owner [Beckmann Estate Berlin]. The 1949 catalogue raisonné lists the painting in the collection of the artist, New York [Reifenberg, Benno, and Wilhelm Hausenstein. "Max Beckmann." Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1949, cat. no. 323].

[2] Per invoice from Catherine Viviano Gallery to Morton D. May dated May 21, 1957 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. After Curt Valentin's death in 1954, the artist's widow, Mathilde Q. Beckmann, consigned Beckmann's work to the Catherine Viviano Gallery [letter from Mathilde Q. Beckmann to Morton D. May, dated December 20, 1955, May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].

[3] Last Will and Testament of M. D. May dated June 11, 1982 [copy, May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 20, 1983.