Illustration for The Soothsayers
Catalogue
- Year
- 1945
- Medium
- Drypoint
- Dimensions
- plate: 7 15/16 x 7 13/16" (20.2 x 19.8 cm); sheet: 11 11/16 x 11 5/16" (29.7 x 28.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Louis Marcoussis
Artist
Printmaking
Louis Marcoussis was a Polish-born painter and printmaker who developed a rigorous, geometric approach to cubism between the 1910s and 1940s. Working primarily in oil and etching, he constructed fragmented still lifes and figures using interlocking planes of muted color, distinguished by a disciplined linearity that set his work apart from more expressionistic cubist variants. His prints, particularly his etchings, became a significant body of work in their own right. Marcoussis's practice bridged early modernism and a more controlled formal investigation of cubist principles.
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- Louis Marcoussis
- Year
- 1945
- Medium
- Drypoint
- Dimensions
- plate: 7 15/16 x 7 13/16" (20.2 x 19.8 cm); sheet: 11 11/16 x 11 5/16" (29.7 x 28.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1945-M057504
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified