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Erich Heckel
Woman reading1914

Not on view
Ink drawing on off-white paper, loose gestural lines depicting a figure seated and looking down at an open book held in both hands
Ink drawing of a seated figure with short hair, looking downward at an open book in their lap, rendered in energetic gestural lines with cross-hatched shadows; bookshelves suggested in the background.

Erich Heckel, Woman reading, 1914, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 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, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Heckel
Title
Woman reading
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1914
Medium
Black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
18 15/16 x 14 1/4 in. (48.1 x 36.04 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
AC1992.238.5
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1883-1970). [Galerie Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden]; sold to the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation in 1983; given in 1992 to LACMA.
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.

Copyright
© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn