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Walter Gramatté
Tired head: Self-portrait1922

Not on view
Etching or aquatint portrait of a face tilted downward, rendered in loose gestural lines against a mottled gray and black background with wild, radiating marks above the head

Walter Gramatté, Tired head: 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
Tired head: 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: 9 13/16 x 9 7/16 in. (24.92 x 23.97 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.66c
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.