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Willy Jaeckel
Third canto/The gate of hell/Purgatory/The cowards/Celestine V/Charon1923

On view:
BCAM 3rd Floor, Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Lithograph depicting a towering skeletal figure in white robes looming over a mass of small nude figures, with a dark curved form and tilted coffin-like shape to the left
Artist or Maker
Willy Jaeckel
Title
Third canto/The gate of hell/Purgatory/The cowards/Celestine V/Charon
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1923
Medium
Etching with soft ground and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (30.8 x 23.5 cm); Sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.8 x 29.8 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
83.1.95.4
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.