RARE Max Beckmann Still Life Three Skulls Playing Cards Art Silk Neck Tie

This tie has never been worn . These were originally sold by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Very rare to find one of these for sale.

The men's necktie in the image features a print of the artwork "Still Life with Three Skulls" by German artist Max Beckmann.

The original painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Beckmann fled Germany in 1937, after the Nazis seized 500 of his paintings and derided them as "degenerate art". Unable to get a U.S. visa, he spent the war years in Amsterdam, where he experienced a "truly grotesque time, full to the brim with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger." Beckmann painted this tabletop scene during the final months of the war in the tradition of a vanitas still life, using objects—skulls, playing cards, an extinguished candle—to symbolize the transience of life. In 1947, Perry Rathbone (then director of the St. Loui Art Museum, and later at the MFA) invited Beckmann to come to the U.S. for a teaching position in St. Lo