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Käthe Kollwitz
Dance around the Guillotine1901

Not on view
Charcoal drawing on cream paper of a crowd of figures on a cobblestone street, with loose gestural strokes and tall architectural forms in the distance, signed in cursive upper right
Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Title
Dance around the Guillotine
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1901
Medium
Charcoal on yellowish wove paper
Dimensions
21 1/8 x 16 7/8 in. (53.66 x 42.86 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.339
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1867-1945). Joseph Katz, Baltimore (d. 1958); [Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg]; purchased 6 June 1974 (lot 1036) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 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.