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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

Alfred Kubin, Wild horses, 1918-1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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