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Edwin Scharff
Downfallcirca 1917

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Gestural ink drawing on white paper, loosely sketched overlapping human figures with rapid hatching and sweeping lines, one face in profile visible at center
Artist or Maker
Edwin Scharff
Title
Downfall
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1917
Medium
Drypoint on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in. (23.65 x 17.62 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
83.1.1662gg
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.

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