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Hermann Scherer
Sleeping Woman with Boy1926

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Painted wood sculpture of two reclining nude figures, a larger sage-green form and a smaller blue figure, with simplified carved features and visible tool marks

Hermann Scherer, Sleeping Woman with Boy, 1926, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Anna Bing Arnold, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Hermann Scherer
Germany, also active Switzerland, 1893-1927
Title
Sleeping Woman with Boy
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1926
Medium
Painted wood
Dimensions
19 1/2 × 53 5/16 × 21 1/2 in. (49.53 × 135.41 × 54.61 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Anna Bing Arnold
Accession Number
M.84.30
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1893-1927). [Wolf Uecker, Hamburg]; [sold in 1983 to Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne]; sold in 1984 to LACMA
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Acknowledgments, or Every Label Tells a Story. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues: LACMA, 2017.

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