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Max Pechstein
Killing of the banquet roast (Erlegung des Festbratens)1911

Not on view
Woodcut print on a German magazine cover dated January 1912, showing four nude figures and two birds around a green tree against flat orange and yellow fields, in bold Expressionist style

Max Pechstein, Killing of the banquet roast (Erlegung des Festbratens), 1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Title
Killing of the banquet roast (Erlegung des Festbratens)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut with orange, yellow and green watercolor on newsprint
Dimensions
Image: 8 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. (22.54 x 26.04 cm); Sheet: 19 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (49.53 x 32.07 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.57
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.

  • Benson, Timothy O., et al. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.

  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn