Still Life with Chianti Bottle and Celery
- Date
- 1949
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 209
- Dimensions
- 20 1/16 × 25 1/4 in. (51 × 64.1 cm)
framed: 28 in. × 33 1/8 in. (71.1 × 84.1 cm) - Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 862:1983
Provenance
Max Beckmann (1884-1950), St. Louis, MO, USA; New York, NY
1949 - 1983
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO, purchased from the artist [1]
1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [2]
Notes:
[1] Morton D. May purchased the painting from the artist on May 31, 1949; this sale is documented in Morton D. May's object record [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. The 1976 Beckmann catalogue raisonné, however, indicates that May purchased the painting in 1949 from Beckmann's dealer, Curt Valentin, of Buchholz Gallery in New York [Göpel, Erhard and Barbara Göpel. "Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde." Bern: Kornfeld & Cie., 1976, cat. no. 784].
[2] 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.
1949 - 1983
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO, purchased from the artist [1]
1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [2]
Notes:
[1] Morton D. May purchased the painting from the artist on May 31, 1949; this sale is documented in Morton D. May's object record [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. The 1976 Beckmann catalogue raisonné, however, indicates that May purchased the painting in 1949 from Beckmann's dealer, Curt Valentin, of Buchholz Gallery in New York [Göpel, Erhard and Barbara Göpel. "Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde." Bern: Kornfeld & Cie., 1976, cat. no. 784].
[2] 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.
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