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Edmund Kesting
The tormentcirca 1918

Not on view
Woodcut print in stark black and white of a nude figure curled with head bowed, seen from above, surrounded by diagonal slashing lines against a black background

Edmund Kesting, The torment, circa 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
Edmund Kesting
Title
The torment
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. (13.97 x 8.73 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
83.1.1546a
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.

Copyright
© Edmund Kesting Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.