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Georg Tappert
Sleeper with masks1918

Not on view
Woodcut print in black and white, densely packed with overlapping faces, a reclining nude figure, skulls, and abstract shapes, with bold carved lines on cream paper; numbered 53/130 in pencil

Georg Tappert, Sleeper with masks, 1918, 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
Georg Tappert
Title
Sleeper with masks
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1918
Medium
Woodcut on copperplate paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 7/16 x 8 in. (18.89 x 20.32 cm); Sheet: 16 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (42.55 x 28.42 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
83.1.17f
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • 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