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Erich Heckel
Reclining child1910

Not on view
Etching with gestural black lines and smoky gray tones; a reclining nude figure in the lower composition, three small standing figures across a horizontal band in the distance; signed 'E. Heckel 12'

Erich Heckel, Reclining child, 1910, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Heckel
Germany, also active Austria, 1883-1970
Title
Reclining child
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1910
Medium
Drypoint on copperplate paper
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (13.02 x 19.37 cm); Sheet: 10 5/16 x 17 1/8 in. (26.19 x 43.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.86
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.

  • Dübe, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dübe. Erich Heckel: das graphische Werk. New York: E. Rathenau, 1964.

  • Thiem, Gunther. Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Los Angeles, 1985.

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