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Josef Čapek
Cerven, 1, no. 1 (7 March 1918)1918

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Woodcut-style print, cover of a Czech periodical titled 'Červen,' featuring a bold, abstracted human head with hatched shading on aged tan paper
Magazine cover with aged beige paper, featuring a woodcut-style print of a stylized, elongated human head with simplified facial features and bold hatched lines, surrounded by Czech text in block lettering.
Woodcut print on yellowed paper, close-up portrait of a figure with long hair adorned by oval shapes, one hand raised near the face, rendered in bold black parallel lines with angular, stylized forms.
Printed book spread with columns of text in Czech on the left page and a bold woodcut or linocut illustration on the right, depicting a stylized human face in profile with angular geometric forms in black ink on yellowed paper.
Artist or Maker
Josef Čapek
Artist or Maker
Vlastislav Hofman
Title
Cerven, 1, no. 1 (7 March 1918)
Place Made
Bohemia
Date Made
1918
Medium
Printed material and two linocuts on wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 10 7/16 x 8 5/16 in. (26.51 x 21.11 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.157.1-.2
Classification
Periodicals
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.