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Oskar Fischinger
Abstraction1943

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract oil painting with a large cream-and-yellow glowing circle on a deep blue ground, a black horizontal bar below center, and scattered copper-brown spheres throughout

Oskar Fischinger, Abstraction, 1943, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Austin and Irene Young Trust by exchange, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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.

Copyright
© Fischinger Trust

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