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Max Pechstein
Postcard: Circus horse1910

Not on view
Ink wash drawing on cream paper, rearing black horse facing a small figure with raised arms holding a whip, loose gestural strokes

Max Pechstein, Postcard: Circus horse, 1910, 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
Postcard: Circus horse
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1910
Medium
Watercolor on postcard
Dimensions
3 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (8.73 × 13.97 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.354
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1881-1955). [Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased in 1972 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 / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn