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George Grosz
Cross section1919-1920

Not on view
Print in black ink on cream paper, dense urban street scene with oversized caricatured faces overlapping city buildings and small figures below

George Grosz, Cross section, 1919-1920, 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
George Grosz
Title
Cross section
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919-1920
Medium
Offset lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 11 x 6 1/4 in. (27.94 x 15.88 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
83.1.73.68
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.

  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
  • Witkovsky, Matthew S., Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P.B. Vail, eds. Moholy-Nagy: Future Present. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
Copyright
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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