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Hermann Paul
Mermaid Playingcirca 1898

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Etching of a woman with closed eyes and bare arms cradling a dark object, surrounded by dense vertical striations, with a sinuous dark form curving through the upper right corner

Hermann Paul, Mermaid Playing, circa 1898, 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
Hermann Paul
France, Paris, 1875-1940
Title
Mermaid Playing
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1898
Medium
Woodcut and lithograph printed in blue, red, and yellow on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11 7/16 x 8 in. (29.05 x 20.32 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
83.1.1355l
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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