A self-portrait by expressionist artist Max Beckmann smashed the document value for a portray offered at public sale in Germany, when it was put earlier than consumers in Berlin on Thursday.
Because the hammer got here down, the best bid for Beckmann’s “Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa” (Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink), painted through the Second World Battle in 1943 stood at 20 million euros. Nonetheless, with extra prices, the ultimate whole for the client will come to round 23.3 million euros.
The portray exhibits Beckmann as a younger man with an enigmatic smile.
Beckmann painted the work whereas in exile in Amsterdam. When the Nazis got here to energy, he was among the many artists whose work was categorized as ‘degenerate artwork’ and had a lot of his work seized from German museums.
He gifted the portray to his spouse, Mathilde Kaulbach, who stored it till her demise in 1986.
