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Collections

Walter Gramatté
Akaky wears the overcoat for the first time on the street1918

Not on view
Lithograph print with a large caricatured figure in a long dark coat pointing left, a rearing horse in soft gray tones behind, and a small crouching figure at lower left

Walter Gramatté, Akaky wears the overcoat for the first time on the street, 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Akaky wears the overcoat for the first time on the street
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1918
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 in. (24.45 × 17.78 cm) Image: 6 5/8 × 5 3/8 in. (16.83 × 13.65 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.63f
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.