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Felix Meseck
Preliminary sketch for "Begegnung" (Encounters) (Plate 1 of the portfolio "15 Kaltnadelarbeiten zu H. v. Kleist's "Penthesilea")circa 1920

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Loose ink and wash drawing on white paper, crowd of standing figures and a rider on a camel surrounded by sketchy trees, with handwritten inscription below

Felix Meseck, Preliminary sketch for "Begegnung" (Encounters) (Plate 1 of the portfolio "15 Kaltnadelarbeiten zu H. v. Kleist's "Penthesilea"), circa 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Simms, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Felix Meseck
Title
Preliminary sketch for "Begegnung" (Encounters) (Plate 1 of the portfolio "15 Kaltnadelarbeiten zu H. v. Kleist's "Penthesilea")
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1920
Medium
Black ink on smooth machine made paper
Dimensions
11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (28.2 x 21.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Simms
Accession Number
M.89.68.7
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1883-1955). [Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel GMBH, Düsseldorf]; Richard Simms (Harbor City, CA, b. 1926); given in 1989 to LACMA.