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Edmund "Eddy" Richard Max Smith
The Murderer with the Dove (Der Mörder mit der Taube)1923

Not on view
Print on cream paper, bust-length portrait of a bald man with deeply lined dark skin, holding a small white bird in large, interlaced hands, with a faint cityscape behind
Artist or Maker
Edmund "Eddy" Richard Max Smith
Germany, 1896-1957
Title
The Murderer with the Dove (Der Mörder mit der Taube)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1923
Medium
Graphite on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
6 7/8 x 6 in. (17.4625 x 15.24 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary
Accession Number
M.2005.8
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1896-1957); sold to [Galerie Taube, Klaus Märtens]; sold to [Ubu Gallery, Adam Boxer, New York City]; sold to LACMA in 2005.
Selected Bibliography
  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.