Self-portrait in a tuxedo
| Self-portrait in a tuxedo |
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| Max Beckmann , 1927 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 139.5 × 95.5 cm |
| Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
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Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo is a painting by Max Beckmann from 1927. It now hangs in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of the Harvard University Art Museum in Cambridge , Massachusetts.
Motif
The self-portrait shows Max Beckmann as a hip image from the front. He is wearing a tuxedo typical of Expressionism of the 1920s and is holding a cigarette in his left hand at stomach level. He put his right hand on his hip. In this very casual posture and with a sober look he stands in front of a dirty white wall. In the left half of the picture you can see an empty door frame, in the lower half of the picture a wooden wall paneling. Despite the white color, the picture looks rather dark.
