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Richard Janthur
The dance of the savages1922

Not on view
Woodcut or linocut print with gestural black lines, coral pink, and teal green, depicting a crowd of abstracted nude figures in a densely packed vertical composition

Richard Janthur, The dance of the savages, 1922, 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
Richard Janthur
Title
The dance of the savages
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Lithograph printed in black, blue and rose on Japan paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (30.8 × 23.18 cm) Image: 8 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (21.27 × 14.29 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
83.1.98.20
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.