Editing Max Beckmann (section)

==Art market==
Although Beckmann is considered an important 20th-century artist, he has never been a household name, and his works have mostly appealed to a niche market of German and Austrian collectors. In 1921, Beckmann signed an exclusive contract with the print-dealer J. B. Neumann in Berlin.<ref name="MOMA"/> In 1938, he had the first of numerous exhibitions at [[Curt Valentin]]’s Buchholz Gallery, New York.<ref name="Max Beckmann"/>

Today, Beckmann's large paintings routinely sell for more than $1 million, and his self-portraits generally command the highest prices. In 2001, [[Ronald Lauder]] paid $22.5 million at [[Sotheby's]] New York for Beckmann's ''Self-Portrait with Horn'' (1938), and displayed it at the [[Neue Galerie New York|Neue Galerie]] in New York. In 2017, an anonymous bidder paid the record sum of $45.8 million for Beckmann's ''Hölle der Vögel (Birds' Hell)'' (1938) at [[Christie's]] in London; this was also a new world record for a German Expressionism artwork. In 2022, ''[[Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink (Beckmann)|Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink]]'' (1943) sold at a Berlin auction for 20 million euros ($20.7 million), a price that appears to be a record for an art auction in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-01 |title=Max Beckmann self-portrait sold at German auction for $20.7M |url=https://apnews.com/article/europe-germany-berlin-c376faf94181c9df1026c047c219f87d |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>