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Robert Michel
200 Horsepower Double "Gnôme" Rotary Engine1921

Not on view
Horizontal print depicting abstracted mechanical components — gears, axles, housings, and levers — in black, gray, steel blue, and copper tones on a speckled cream ground, with handwritten technical annotations along the lower edge

Robert Michel, 200 Horsepower Double "Gnôme" Rotary Engine, 1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Robert Michel
Germany, 1897-1983
Title
200 Horsepower Double "Gnôme" Rotary Engine
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Ink and watercolor on paper, painted paper behind cut-outs
Dimensions
12 × 14 in. (30.48 × 35.56 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.85
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1897-1983). [Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin]; sold 1985 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.