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Walter Gramatté
Head of a boy: Self-portrait1922

Not on view
Etching portrait of a young man, head and shoulders, built from dense diagonal hatching and plate tone, with thick wavy hair swept upward
Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Head of a boy: Self-portrait
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Etching with aquatint printed in green, hand-colored with rose watercolor on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 12 11/16 x 9 3/4 in. (32.23 x 24.77 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.66h
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.