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Prescient Paintings.(Max Beckmann)(Brief Article)

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For the half century after his death in 1950, German artist Max Beckmann was overshadowed by showier Parisian peers like Matisse and Picasso. But he's finally getting his fair share of praise: an exhibit at London's Tate Modern gallery, which travels to New York's Museum of Modern Art in June, has sparked a reappraisal of his work.

As was the case for many other artists who fought in World War I, what Beckmann saw haunted his canvases, shaping a style--full of fragmented spaces and graphic depictions--that slipped through the cracks of modern art's ...

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