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Robert Philippi
Agonycirca 1923

Not on view
Woodcut print, nude female figure kneeling with arms raised above her head, bold white lines against a deep black field, expressive carving style

Robert Philippi, Agony, circa 1923, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Robert Philippi
Title
Agony
Place Made
Germany, Leipzig and Austria, Vienna
Date Made
circa 1923
Medium
Woodcut on thin Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 19 x 10 9/16 in. (48.26 x 26.82 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.15i
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • 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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