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Arthur Segal
The flight into Egyptcirca 1917

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Horizontal ink drawing on cream paper divided into a twelve-panel grid, depicting robed figures, a donkey, a haloed figure, a palm tree, and rocky landscape in bold black lines with hatched shading

Arthur Segal, The flight into Egypt, circa 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Arthur Segal
Romania, Iasi, 1875-1944
Title
The flight into Egypt
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1917
Medium
Black ink and white gouache on laid paper
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 16 11/16 in. (29.21 x 42.39 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.360
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1875-1944). [Sotheby's, London]; purchased 4 April 1974 (lot 337) 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.

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