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Ernst Barlach
The new daycirca 1932

Not on view
Lithograph of two robed, bearded figures confronting each other: one standing and raising a club overhead, the other crouching and gripping a long staff, surrounded by radiating hatched lines
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Title
The new day
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1932
Medium
Lithographic crayon and pencil on transfer paper
Dimensions
Composition: 12 5/8 x 17 5/8 in. (32.07 x 44.77 cm); Sheet: 14 3/8 x 20 3/8 in. (36.51 x 51.75 cm) irregular cut
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.76
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1870-1938). Marga Boehmer, Güstrow; [Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin]; sold in 1979 to Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barlach, Ernst, and Ernst Barlach Stiftung. Ernst Barlach: Die Zeichnungen. Edited by Annette Wittboldt and Elisabeth Laur. Güstrow: Ernst Barlach Stiftung, 2013
  • Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach, das graphische Werk. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Series: His Ernest Barlach Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958.