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Willy Jaeckel
Tenderness1919

Not on view
Drawing in black chalk on white paper, two figures in close embrace, rendered with loose, gestural strokes and heavy scribbled shadows

Willy Jaeckel, Tenderness, 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
Willy Jaeckel
Title
Tenderness
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/4 x 5 9/16 in. (18.42 x 14.13 cm) irregular
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
83.1.1622a
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
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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