Painting ID

March 20, 2009 12:17 PM

Painting ID question with hilariously scant details.

I'm trying to identify a painting that I saw several years ago in an undergraduate modern art class, and I'm having no luck. The painting depicted a thin, cleanshaven man of indeterminate age, wearing a tuxedo, looking at the viewer. I'm pretty sure that he was seated, smoking, and surrounded by other partygoers. I seem to recall that the picture was fairly realistic (that is, not in any way abstract), that it was painted in Europe (most likely Germany) in or around the 1920's, and that the subject was some sort of royalty, either real or fictitious. I can say with absolute certainty that it is NOT Beckmann's "Self-portrait with Tuxedo."

If you can ID the picture and artist I'll be eternally grateful.

posted by saladin to media & arts (4 comments total)

Christian Schad, Count St. Genois d'Anneaucourt?
posted by scody at 12:25 PM on March 20

(If it's not that one, perhaps Max Beckmann's Young Argentine? No fellow partygoers, though.)
posted by scody at 12:27 PM on March 20

JEE-ZUS scody, that is so great, thanks so much!
posted by saladin at 12:28 PM on March 20

Could it be Portrait of the Writer Walter Mehling by George Grosz? Or Der Wiener Baumeister Adolf Loos by Oskar Kokoschka? This page on "Entartete Kunst" has bits about many Weimar painters. Do any of them resemble the style of the painting you're looking for?

On preview, enjoy the art, but scody got it.
posted by ocherdraco at 12:32 PM on March 20