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Erich Godal
The dreamcirca 1919

Not on view
Woodcut print in stark black and white, a large figure with wild radiating lines looms over a smaller sprawling figure, with bold gouged marks and dense black ink

Erich Godal, The dream, circa 1919, 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
Erich Godal
Germany, also active United States, 1899-1969
Title
The dream
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1919
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 x 7 1/16 in. (17.78 x 17.94 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
83.1.1551d
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.

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