Explore the Provenance of this artwork, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Beckmann).
The painting was purchased by the Kunsthalle Mannheim from the artist in 1919, and remained in that collection until 1937. It was seized during the purge of modern art by the Nazi regime in 1927, and shown the same year in the so-called degenerate art exhibition. It was bought to the Buchholz Gallery, in New York, by Curt Valentin, probably in 1938, where it stayed until 1955. It was bequested to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1955.
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