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Johannes Itten
Figural composition1918

Not on view
Gestural charcoal drawing of an abstracted standing figure with wide stance and raised arms, rendered in bold, sweeping black strokes on off-white paper

Johannes Itten, Figural composition, 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Johannes Itten
Title
Figural composition
Place Made
Austria, Vienna
Date Made
1918
Medium
Lithograph on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 13/16 x 11 1/2 in. (47.78 x 29.21 cm) irregular; Sheet: 23 15/16 x 17 3/4 in. (60.8 x 45.09 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.101
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.