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Untitled, from Black and Red Series

Louis MarcoussisWW-1938-160051

1938·drypoint printed in red and black·Image: 16.8 x 25.8 cm (6 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Bequests of Charles T. Brooks and Grover Higgins by exchange

Catalogue

Year: 1938
Medium: drypoint printed in red and black
Dimensions: Image: 16.8 x 25.8 cm (6 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist: Louis Marcoussis

Artist

Louis Marcoussis

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.

Paris, France

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