Small Stormy Sea

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

1950 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from the Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, NY, on consignment from the artist [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 Amsterdam 1945 list, but the artist does not list specific dates for when he started or completed the work [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. 569].

[2] Per invoice from Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin) to Morton D. May dated July 5, 1950 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. A list of paintings purchased by May, dated September 1, 1950, notes "Stormy Weather" as owned by the artist at the time of the sale [Curt Valentin Papers, III.A.5, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York].

[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.