The Announcer (The Barker), from the portfolio The Fair

Inscription: Signed (lower right in image, in graphite): Beckmann

(sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, December 4, 1999, no. 765, sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Max Beckmann Prints," July 14, 2000–January 7, 2001, no catalogue.

Curt Glaser et al. Max Beckmann. Munich, 1924, p. 84, no. 166, call it "Der Ausrufer".

Klaus Gallwitz, ed. Max Beckmann: Die Druckgraphik. Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Exh. cat., Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, 1962, unpaginated, no. 163, ill. (not this edition; collection Günther Franke), calls it "Der Ausrufer (Selbstbildnis Zirkus Beckmann)".

Harold Joachim in Peter Selz. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. New York, [1964], p. 119.

Walter Barker. "The Prints of Max Beckmann." Print Collector's Newsletter 15 (January–February 1985), p. 207.

James Hofmaier. Max Beckmann: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Vol. 2, Numbers 180–373. Bern, 1990, pp. 496–99, no. 191 II B b, ill., calls it "The Barker (Self-Portrait)".

Wendy Weitman in Max Beckmann Prints from the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 1992, pp. 14, 16, 95, 98, fig. 3 (not this edition), calls it "The Barker (Self-Portrait)".

Robin Reisenfeld. The German Print Portfolio: Serials for a Private Sphere. Ed. Richard A. Born and Stephanie D'Alessandro. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 1992, pp. 95, 97, 103, no. 6d, ill. p. 99 (not this edition; collection David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago), calls it "Der Ausrufer (The Barker)".

Christian Lenz in Thomas Döring and Christian Lenz. Max Beckmann: Selbstbildnisse, Zeichnung und Druckgraphik. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Bonn, 2000, pp. 37–38, 220–21, no. 66, ill. (not this edition; collection Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig), calls it "Der Ausrufer (Selbstbildnis)".

Catherine Clinger. "Theory of the Ridiculous: Jean Paul, Max Beckmann, and Dostoevsky's Donkey." Art History 33 (June 2010), pp. 515, 518–20, 531, ill. p. 512 (color detail), colorpl. 1 (not this edition; collection Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.), calls it "The Town Crier (Der Ausrufer)" in the caption and "The Circus Barker" in the text.