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Lovers, 1917 (Mann und frau, umarmung)
Egon Schiele
Print - 74.5 x 52 cm Print - 29.3 x 20.5 inch
$1,105
Flora and Fauna
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 95 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,581
The memory of a carefree summer
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 60 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Intimate ambience
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 75 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,233
La fille aux bas noirs et jarretières rouges, 1913 | The girl with red garters, 1913
Egon Schiele
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$837
Les Danseurs à la Lune - Original Etching
Marc Chagall
Print - 50 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$13,395
L'Homme aux cheveux noirs, 1909 | Black-Haired Man, 1909
Egon Schiele
Print - 56 x 54 x 1 cm Print - 22 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$770
La Fille en rouge / The Girl in Red, 1913 (Standing woman in red / Stehende Frau in Rot)
Egon Schiele
Print - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$726
Etude Du Corps Humain D'après Ingres
Francis Bacon
Print - 88 x 60.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 34.6 x 23.8 x 0 inch
$21,209
Le Peintre, from Songes
Marc Chagall
Print - 52 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.5 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$11,832
Siren with the Poet from Nice and the Côte d'Azur
Marc Chagall
Print - 73.2 x 52.6 x 0.1 cm Print - 28.8 x 20.7 x 0 inch
$32,149
Glamorous games
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
Logique de la sensation
Francis Bacon
Print - 45 x 33 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 13 x 0 inch
Price upon request
Nature morte à la feuille de figuier
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 54 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
Sold
L'Enfer de Dante / Tête Renversée
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
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In the shades of transparency 2
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Composition 2 pour Cahiers d'Art
Vassily Kandinsky
Print - 40 x 31.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
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Saint Tropez vu de la citadelle
Bernard Buffet
Print - 58 x 75 x 1 cm Print - 22.8 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
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Autoportrait
Xavier Albert Fiala
Fine Art Drawings - 32.7 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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La magie quotidienne (tête de femme)
Alberto Giacometti
Print - 41 x 28 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.1 x 11 x 0 inch
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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.
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