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Alfred Kubin
Leviathancirca 1924

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Horizontal ink drawing of a marshy waterway with a stilted wooden structure, a scaly creature crouching at the shoreline, and two large open-mouthed fish rising from the water, rendered in loose, energetic black lines with dense hatching

Alfred Kubin, Leviathan, circa 1924, 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
Alfred Kubin
Title
Leviathan
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
circa 1924
Medium
Lithograph on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 11/16 x 14 7/8 in. (24.61 x 37.78 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
83.1.29i
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.

  • Raabe, Paul, ed. Alfred Kubin: Leben, Werk, Wirkung. Im Auftrage von Kurt Otte, Kubin-Archiv in Hamburg, zusammengestellt. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1957
  • 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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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