Self-Portrait, "Marcoussis Engraving"
Gift of The Cleveland Museum of Art Library
Catalogue
- Year
- 1936
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.1 x 24 cm (12 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Platemark: 20.8 x 16.9 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of 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
- 1936
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.1 x 24 cm (12 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Platemark: 20.8 x 16.9 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1936-160052
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified