Oskar Fischinger
Abstraction1943

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Oskar Fischinger
Germany, active Germany and United States, 1900-1967
Title: Abstraction
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1943
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Austin and Irene Young Trust by exchange
Accession Number: AC1998.137.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1900-1967); by descent to his widow Elfrieda Fischinger (1910-1999), Los Angeles; [Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Inc., Los Angeles]; sold in 1998 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.