Still Life with Fallen Candles, 1929

  • Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 22 × 24 3/4 inches (55.9 × 62.9 cm)
  • 28 7/8 × 31 1/8 × 3 inches (73.3 × 79.1 × 7.6 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

29.322

On View

  • Modern, Level 2, North

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed and dated, upper left: Beckmann | F 29

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Max Beckmann, Still Life with Fallen Candles, 1929, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.322.