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Matthias Bitzer
Sky2015

Not on view
Charcoal drawing of a face overlaid with hard-edged, nested black and white rectangles in a pixelated pattern, mounted in a black frame with a strip of color swatches along the bottom

Matthias Bitzer, Sky, 2015, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prints and Drawings Art Acquisition Fund, photo by Jens Ziehe/Photographie, courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen

Artist or Maker
Matthias Bitzer
Germany, born 1975
Title
Sky
Date Made
2015
Medium
Pencil on paper, lacquer on glass
Dimensions
Sheet: 36 1/4 × 27 1/2 in. (92.08 × 69.85 cm) Image: 35 × 26 1/8 in. (88.9 × 66.36 cm) Frame: 43 3/8 × 30 × 1 3/8 in. (110.17 × 76.2 × 3.49 cm)
Credit Line
Prints and Drawings Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.2016.177.3
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • "Matthias Bitzer: Recently Acquired by LACMA, Los Angeles." Almine Rech Newsletter no.18 (2016): 14.
Copyright
© Matthias Bitzer

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