Collection

Sleeping Athlete (Schlafender Athlet)

Max Beckmann

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

This print is part of Max Beckmann’s portfolio Day and Dream, fifteen lithographs commissioned in early 1946, as a way to promote his art to an American audience. The contorted, exaggerated form of the sleeping male athlete—bulky, angular arms and legs, with scarcely any torso—is typical of German Expressionist figures.

Caption

Max Beckmann (Leipzig, Germany, 1884–1950, New York, New York). Sleeping Athlete (Schlafender Athlet), 1946. Lithograph on wove paper, Image: 11 x 10 3/8 in. (27.9 x 26.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (40 x 30 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Curt Valentin, 49.206.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Sleeping Athlete (Schlafender Athlet)

Date

1946

Geography

Place made: Germany

Medium

Lithograph on wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image: 11 x 10 3/8 in. (27.9 x 26.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (40 x 30 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "Beckmann" lower right corner in pencil

Inscriptions

Lower left in graphite: "58/90"; lower center in graphite: "III."; lower right in graphite: "Beckmann" Verso bottom left in graphite: "49.206-3"

Markings

Verso bottom left stamped: "Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y." (Lugt 307a)

Credit Line

Gift of Curt Valentin

Accession Number

49.206.3

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Artists and makers

Max Beckmann

41 works in the collection

Curt Valentin

38 works in the collection