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George Minne
Desires of wintercirca 1889

Not on view
Woodcut-style print in black and white, three nude figures reclining under a dark blanket against a starry night sky, bare feet visible below

George Minne, Desires of winter, circa 1889, 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 Minne
Title
Desires of winter
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1889
Medium
Wood engraving on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 2 3/4 in. (19.37 × 6.99 cm) Image: 1 5/8 × 2 3/4 in. (4.13 × 6.99 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
83.1.158d
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.

  • Maeterlinck, Maurice. Hothouses: Poems, 1889. Translated by Richard Howard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.