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Max Pechstein
Woman on a sofa1908

Not on view
Etching of a seated nude figure leaning back on one arm, rendered in bold gestural black lines with gray tonal aquatint, signed 'Pechstein 1910'

Max Pechstein, Woman on a sofa, 1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Title
Woman on a sofa
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1908
Medium
Etching and aquatint on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (20 x 20 cm); Sheet: 12 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (32.7 x 29.85 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.250
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.

  • Fechter, Paul. Das graphische Werk Max Pechsteins. Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, c. 1921.
  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Expressionism in Germany and France: from Van Gogh to Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
  • Benson, Timothy O. L'Expressionnisme en Allemagne et en France : De van Gogh à Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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