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Max Pechstein
In the shadows1913

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Lithograph or monotype portrait of a person's head in dense black ink, with gestural strokes, heavy shadowing, and high contrast between dark and white areas
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Title
In the shadows
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1913
Medium
Lithograph on thin wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 3/8 x 12 13/16 in. (51.75 x 32.54 cm) irregular; Sheet: 21 3/4 x 16 5/8 in. (55.245 x 42.23 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.
  • Fechter, Paul. Das graphische Werk Max Pechsteins. Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, c. 1921.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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