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Alfred Kubin
Caliban1917

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Print on cream paper depicting a large, crouching ape-like humanoid raising a dagger overhead, rendered in loose black lines with heavy cross-hatching

Alfred Kubin, Caliban, 1917, 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
Caliban
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917
Medium
Lithograph on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image (Image): 12 9/16 x 10 1/4 in. (31.9088 x 26.04 cm) Sheet (Sheet): 17 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (45.4025 x 35.8775 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm) Frame: 21 × 17 in. (53.34 × 43.18 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.384.26
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.

  • 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.
  • Raabe, Paul, ed. Alfred Kubin: Leben, Werk, Wirkung. Im Auftrage von Kurt Otte, Kubin-Archiv in Hamburg, zusammengestellt. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1957
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn