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Walter Gramatté
Man By the Sea: Self-Portrait1922

Not on view
Etching portrait of an older man with deeply lined face, wavy hair built from curved lines, floating oval shapes in the background, signed in pencil below

Walter Gramatté, Man By the Sea: Self-Portrait, 1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Man By the Sea: Self-Portrait
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in black and green
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 x 9 1/2 in. (24.92 x 24.13 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.66i
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.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.