Head (Tête)

Head (Tête)

Louis SoutterWW-1939-M032111
1939·Oil on paper·25 5/8 x 19 3/4" (65.1 x 50.2 cm)

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Year
1939
Dimensions
25 5/8 x 19 3/4" (65.1 x 50.2 cm)

Artist

Louis Soutter
Louis Soutter

Drawing

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.

Morges, Switzerland

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Year
1939
Dimensions
25 5/8 x 19 3/4" (65.1 x 50.2 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1939-M032111

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Source
moma
Status
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Artist

Louis Soutter

Louis Soutter

Drawing

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