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Collections

Lovis Corinth
Portrait of Arno Holz1923

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorDanse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Charcoal or chalk drawing on cream paper, head-and-shoulders portrait of a broad-faced middle-aged man, built from dense stippled marks; signed 'Arno Holz, Berlin 1927'

Lovis Corinth, Portrait of Arno Holz, 1923, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Kallir Family, Kallir Research Institute, New York.

Artist or Maker
Lovis Corinth
Germany, also active Netherlands and France, 1858-1925
Title
Portrait of Arno Holz
Date Made
1923
Medium
Lithographic crayon on heavy cream Bütten paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (31.12 × 24.13 cm) Mat: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.48 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kallir Family
Accession Number
M.2025.10.14
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1858–1925). Private collection, Berlin, before 1939; [Christies London, Jun. 25, 1985, sale 3143, cat. no. 408]; [Galerie St. Etienne, New York]; transferred to the Kallir Family Foundation, 2024; given in 2025 to LACMA.
Copyright
photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York