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Bonheur de Matisse - MP 386
Bram van Velde
Print - 65 x 97 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 38.2 x 0 inch
€3,500
Vent des sables - MP 392
Bram van Velde
Print - 65 x 92 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0 inch
€2,800
Portrait de Leopold Zborowski (d'après)
Amedeo Modigliani
Print - 46 x 30 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
Abstract Study N20
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch
€700
Le Grand Canal de Venice (The Grand Canal, Venice )
Bernard Buffet
Print - 90.5 x 111.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.6 x 43.9 x 0.2 inch
€4,890
Don quixote et le duegne barbue
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€3,800
Composition
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 60 x 49 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
€1,067
Useless Dream
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,700
Still Life with Flowers - Orange Bkgrd (After)
Bernard Buffet
Print - 27.3 x 21 x 0.6 cm Print - 10.75 x 8.25 x 0.25 inch
€472
Our masks
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Le cerf se voyant dans l'eau
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
€3,600
Sans titre (Icare)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Untitled
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Le voyage de l'apprentissage
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
€1,800
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
€1,800
Mayes Street N2
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Mayes Street
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
The frowns
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Old Lady Draws
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,300
Le Cirque Fantastique
Marc Chagall
Print - 41.5 x 52 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.3 x 20.5 x 0.1 inch
€13,000
Les Deux Taureaux et une Grenouille
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
€3,800
Le cordonnier (pour les Fables de la Fontaine)
Marc Chagall
Print - 29.5 x 24 x 0.2 cm Print - 11.6 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,400
Map of the mind
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,800
Dead End
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€3,600
David and Absalom - from 'The Bible'
Marc Chagall
Print - 53.5 x 39 x 0.1 cm Print - 21.1 x 15.4 x 0 inch
€8,500
Angel Ariel Prospero enchanter tempest
Marc Chagall
Print - 26 x 32 x 0.2 cm Print - 10.2 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
€11,300
Sans titre (Foudre)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 19.3 inch
€1,200
Sans titre (Moi-libellule)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 57 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
L'Arbre, Meyrin, Genève
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 11.6 x 0.2 inch
€992
Sans titre (Alice)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Sans titre (tea time)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€750
Sans titre (Amphores)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 inch
€750
Sans titre (Vitoire-bleu)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 58 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
La Cathédrale
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 108.5 x 89 x 1 cm Painting - 42.7 x 35 x 0.4 inch
€2,112
La lutte du Jacob et du l''Ange (The Fight Between Jacob & the Angel)
Marc Chagall
Print - 75.5 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.7 x 21.9 x 0 inch
€17,900
Sacrifices Made to the Nymphs, from Daphnis and Chloe
Marc Chagall
Print - 54 x 38.1 cm Print - 21.25 x 15 inch
€19,086
Good luck bird
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Perdre ciel et terre
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€5,000
Franco
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Whatever man
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,300
Man in blue
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Okinawo
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
News Paper Sellers
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,400
The Frowns N2
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
The boy with green hair
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Silent Shout N2
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Silent Shout
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
North Korean Kid
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Unknown Man From Another Time
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,500
Shadow N2
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 18 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Patience
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,800
Sans titre (Minotaure elevement)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€750
Sans titre (Chien)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 75 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Sans titre (marx)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
€750
Sans titre (Entre-Exit)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 49 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
Sans titre (Marylin)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 99 x 87 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 34.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,800
Movement Expressionism
Unlike Impressionism, Expressionism sought not to reproduce a depiction of the world but rather illustrate the artist's emotional response to their surroundings. Garish colours, dynamic brush stokes, distorted compositions, primitive influences, strident and even violent subject matter; the Expressionists replaced visual reality for their own emotionally-charged perceptions of the truth. Expressionism first manifested itself in Germany in 1910, embodying the increasing anxiety that surrounded humanity's cacophonous relationship with spirituality and the world. The rapid urbanisation of the world and increasingly afflictive relationship to nature, inspired the Expressionists to explore the subjects alienated by industrialisation. Lonely products of capitalism, emotionally starved individuals, prostitutes and solitary souls were depicted through inflated and distorted brush strokes.
German Expressionism in particular can be divided into two distinctive groups: Die Brücke et Der Blaue Reiter. Despite their different approaches, these two movements are often merged into the single German Expressionist movement. Die Brücke (“The Bridge") was formed in 1905 in Dresden. It explored an emotional sensitivity that was divorced from intellect, and the weariness surrounding the German society that edged towards an inherent collapse. Artists leading the movement were Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Erich Heckel. Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider") came after Die Brücke, and was a product of thinkers and philosophers. Intellectuals interrogated the boundaries of art and the power it had on society. It lasted from 1912 to 1914, and its key artists included Vassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Munter, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Alexej von Jawensky.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: one of the most important figures of the Die Brücke movement. Through his use of unusual compositions, figures in motion, stimulated renderings of the human form, an inflated hypersensitivity and vivid colours, Kirchner depicted Berlin's transforming bohemian life.
Emil Nolde: a significant painter of the movement, who was heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh. Nolde found inspiration in primitive art, and Van Gogh's influence can be felt in his acute preoccupation with flowers in his work. Golden hues and deep maroons resonate on his canvas, transforming these otherwise muted tones into vivid and captivating works of art.
Wassily Kandinsky: intensely inspired to create art that surpassed physical frontiers, he explored profound levels of spirituality in his work. His heavily abstracted compositions depict the vast extent of human emotion, and he considered music as the ultimate form of non-objective art.
Edvard Munch: a key figure in Expressionism, and an endlessly troubled artist, Munch was plagued by thoughts of death, illness, sex and religion. He channelled his agitated thoughts through complex and vivid compositions and subject matter, using the depiction of sex to convey the increasingly bohemian habit of using sexual experiences as a means of liberating oneself from social resignation.
Enter the distorted and hyperbolic psyches of the great Expressionist masters through our talented contemporary artists. Whether you're guided by Caroline Vis' colours, captivated by Alexander Bagrat's visceral nudes, or hypnotised by Joëlle Kem Lika's psychologically-charged compositions; Artsper has the Expressionism-inspired work for you.