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Felix Meseck
Preliminary Sketch for "Kampf" (Battle)circa 1920

Not on view
Pencil drawing on white paper with loose, gestural lines depicting a figure astride a large animal, with sweeping curved forms and scattered marks within a lightly ruled border

Felix Meseck, Preliminary Sketch for "Kampf" (Battle), 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 "Kampf" (Battle)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1920
Medium
Black ink on machine made laid paper
Dimensions
10 5/16 x 8 9/16 in. (26.1 x 21.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Simms
Accession Number
M.89.68.19
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.