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Felix Meseck
Composite sketches for the portfolio "15 Kaltnadelarbeiten zu H. v. Kleist's "Penthesilea"circa 1920

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Ink and wash drawing on white paper, study sheet with multiple gestural figure sketches and two framed compositional studies, loose scratchy line work with gray wash
Artist or Maker
Felix Meseck
Title
Composite sketches for 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.89.68.8
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.