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Elfriede Thum
The first1919

Not on view
Charcoal or chalk drawing on white paper, loose gestural nude figure arching backward, viewed from below, with bold hatched strokes

Elfriede Thum, The first, 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
Elfriede Thum
Title
The first
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 x 5 3/4 in. (20.32 x 14.61 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
83.1.1628a
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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