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Walter Gramatté
Dark face: Self-portrait1922

Not on view
Etching or drypoint portrait of a figure with dense horizontal hatching obscuring the eyes, loose expressive lines, numbered 8/8 and signed in pencil

Walter Gramatté, Dark face: 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
Dark face: Self-portrait
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Etching with aquatint printed in dark brown on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/16 x 6 7/8 in. (25.56 x 17.46 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.66e
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.

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