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Period: 1910s
Roger de la Fresnaye (French, 1885-1925) - Femme Nue Couchée
Located in Dallas, TX
Roger de la Fresnaye (French, 1885-1925) - Femme Nue Couchée
Monumental 90% life size nude model painting executed during the zenith and birth of cubism and expressionism.
Oil on ...
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Hjalmar Kragh-Pedersen, Sydhavn, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Hjalmar Kragh-Pedersen (1883-1962) depicts the industrial area of Sydhavn, Denmark.
Hjalmar Kragh-Pedersen was predominantly kn...
Category
Expressionist 1910s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil and ink on heavy cardboard; from the Samuel Esses Collection
This is a very early and somewhat uncharacteristic work for the artist with its clear debt to Expressionism.
Never ...
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink
Watercolor Landscape View From Nordingrå, 1916
Located in Stockholm, SE
Helmer Osslund was a renowned Swedish artist known for his expressionist landscape paintings that captured the raw and natural beauty of Sweden. We are delighted to offer for sale a ...
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
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Paris, Seine. 1918/19, oil on cardboard, 38x52 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris, Seine. 1918/19, oil on cardboard, 38x52 cm
Signature located in bottom right corner Belay
The certificate: M. Roland Souef at November 23, 2011
Pierre Savigny de Belay...
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
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Oil, Cardboard
"Nature Morte" Fruit Bowl, Tea Pot and Cup, Oil on Canvas by Spanish Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
NATURE MORTE
signed "Lagar" lower left
oil on canvas
18-1/4 X 21-3/4 inches (46 X 55 cm.)
framed: 23-3/8 X 27-1/8 (59 X 68.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Karl Nordström, Yellow Tulips, Signed and dated.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful still-life of yellow and red tulips in a vase by Karl Nordström (1855-1923), signed 'KN' and dated a tergo 1917. The vibrant flowers are standing in a vase which is placed on a cloth against a bluish-green background.
Karl Fredrik Nordström was born on the Swedish west coast on the large island of Tjörn and was a Swedish painter known mostly for his landscape paintings.
He came to Stockholm in 1875 and started to study at the
Royal Art Academy, where he was tutored by Edvard Perséus, among others. There, he also became close friends with the artists Richard Bergh and Nils Kreuger...
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Expressionist 1910s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a man, an expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in PARIS, FR
This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face.
1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy.
The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him.
He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s.
In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design.
In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life.
In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946.
2. Description of the artwork
This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face.
Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows.
In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...
Category
Expressionist 1910s Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Cardboard
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