Illusion Act

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Illusion Act

Alternate Title: Illusionsakt
Edition: 9/50
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Zirkus
Portfolio (translation): Circus
Plate: plate 2
Germany, 1922
Prints; etchings
Etching and drypoint on copperplate paper
Plate: 11 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (29.85 x 25.72 cm); Sheet: 19 5/8 x 16 15/16 in. (49.85 x 43.02 cm); Framed: 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (80.01 x 64.77 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.50b)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

    View Volume 1 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

    View Volume 2 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992,  vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
  • Papanikolas, Theresa.  Doctrinal Nourishment:  Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.
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