The World Made Safe for Democracy

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The World Made Safe for Democracy

Alternate Title: L'etat,c'est moi: Die vollendete Demokratie

Germany, circa 1919
Drawings
Black ink on wove paper
22 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (56.2 x 38.42 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.333)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1893-1959).

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The artist (1893-1959). [Forum Gallery, New York]; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York]; purchased 13-14 December 1973 (lot 113) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.


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Bibliography

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer.  The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.

  • 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.

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