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Alfred Kubin
Wild horses1918-1919

Not on view
Ink drawing on white paper of two or three horses in violent, tangled motion, rendered with rapid, overlapping black strokes
Artist or Maker
Alfred Kubin
Bohemia (Czech Republic), 1877-1959
Title
Wild horses
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1918-1919
Medium
Pen and ink over pencil on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
11 11/16 x 17 7/16 in. (29.69 x 44.29 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.344
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1877-1959); given in 1928 to Thomas Theodor Heine (1867-1948, editor of Simplicissmus); [Sotheby's, London]; purchased 6 December 1973 (lot 203a) 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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.