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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
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.