Resurrection (Résurrection)
1939 · Oil on paper
20 1/4 x 26 7/8" (51.4 x 68.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Louis Soutter
Swiss, 1871
DrawingExpressionism
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12
Works in Collection
23
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3
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- • Expressionism
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Louis Soutter was a Swiss painter and draughtsman whose late work, produced between the 1920s and 1940s, combined gestural abstraction with figural fragmentation. Working in isolation in the Swiss Alps, he developed a distinctive graphic language using ink and watercolor that anticipated mid-century modernism. His intense, expressionistic mark-making and increasingly non-representational compositions remain understudied in art historical discourse.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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