Max Beckmann Quote

And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived... Perry Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and Mrs. Beckmann [Quappi, his wife] grinned – - o-la-La.... The whole story is a monumental caprice of my situation in Germany before the Nazi's.


In Beckmann's diary-notes, Saint Louis, 6 October 1947; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 89


And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived... Perry Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and ...

And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived... Perry Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and ...

And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived... Perry Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and ...

And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived... Perry Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and ...