Evening (Self-Portrait with the Battenbergs), plate 10 from...

Max Beckmann, German

1916

Drypoint

Saint Louis Art Museum

A group of three people and a cat are depicted in a close-up, intimate composition. The figures' faces are rendered with expressive lines, and the cat rests on the chest of the central figure. Neumann/Frumkin Collection, purchased with funds provided by the bequest of Morton D. May, by exchange, the bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn in honor of her father, David May, by exchange, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Museum Shop Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Crancer Jr., Phoebe and Mark Weil, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, Mr. and Mrs. David C. Farrell, the Julian and Hope Edison Print Fund, gift of George Rickey, by exchange, bequest of Helen K. Baer, by exchange, Suzanne and Jerry Sincoff, Museum Shop Fund, by…