Self-Portrait with Brown Background

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Self-Portrait with Brown Background

1912
Drawings
Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
Mat: 18 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (47.63 × 39.37 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (31.43 × 25.08 cm)
Gift of Kallir Family (M.2025.10.8)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1890–1918).

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The artist (1890–1918). Rudolf Leopold (1925 –2010), Vienna; Otto Kallir (1894–1978), Vienna and New York [1], 1958; by descent to his son John Kallir (1923–2022), New York; given to the Kallir Family Foundation, 2005; given in 2025 to LACMA.

[1]:  Kallir was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938 and lived in New York from 1939 on.

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