Dance around the Guillotine

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Dance around the Guillotine

Alternate Title: Tanz um die Guillotine
Germany, 1901
Drawings
Charcoal on yellowish wove paper
21 1/8 x 16 7/8 in. (53.66 x 42.86 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.339)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1867-1945). Joseph Katz, Baltimore (d. 1958); [Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg]; purchased 6 June 1974 (lot 1036) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.

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