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Night Night
© DACS 2002

Night

Max Beckmann

Art Funded
1996
Dimensions
46 x 36 cm
Vendor
William Weston Gallery
Depiction of a group of several figures in a confined, box-like space; the tilting of the planes in different directions emphasises the feeling of claustrophobic enclosure and also the figures' discomfort.

Lithograph in black ink

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