The Tree, plate one from Théatrales Pour Monsieur G...
Catalogue
- Year
- 1933
- Dimensions
- Plate: 17.3 × 18.2 cm (6 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 32.5 cm (15 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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
- 1933
- Dimensions
- Plate: 17.3 × 18.2 cm (6 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 32.5 cm (15 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1933-060496
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified