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Felix Meseck
Preliminary sketchcirca 1920

Not on view

Ink drawing on white paper with multiple loosely framed vignettes showing gestural, tangled figure sketches in energetic, spontaneous black lines

Felix Meseck, Preliminary sketch, 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
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.89.68.16
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.