Perseus's Last Duty

Max Beckmann painted ‘Perseus’s Last Duty’ in 1949, a year before his death. The work is oil on canvas. It is held at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The painting’s composition is dense and packed with figures. The mythological narrative is not immediately clear.

Beckmann fled Germany in 1937 and lived in Amsterdam before moving to the United States in 1947. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.7

https://oolf.net/open-art/beckmann-cma_171157/