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Femme assise en chemise (d'après)
Amedeo Modigliani
Print - 49 x 31 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.3 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
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Manilov – from "Les Ames Mortes"
Marc Chagall
Print - 37 x 28 x 0.3 cm Print - 14.6 x 11 x 0.1 inch
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Journal d'un Cheval - Original Artist Book by C. Goll, illustrated by M. Chagall
Marc Chagall
Print - 30.5 x 25 x 1.5 cm Print - 12 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
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Nemours, Le château et les bords du Loing
Bernard Buffet
Print - 92 x 136 x 2 cm Print - 36.2 x 53.5 x 0.8 inch
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Don Quichotte et les moulins à vent
Bernard Buffet
Print - 75 x 55 x 1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
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Le Loup plaidant contre le Renard par-devant le Singe
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
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Nature morte cubiste au pichet et bouteilles
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 61 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
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Les Ames Mortes by N. Gogol
Marc Chagall
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Tête de jeune femme (d'après Amedeo Modigliani)
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 54 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
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Moses Meets his Brother Aaron in the Desert
Marc Chagall
Print - 44.2 x 33 x 0.3 cm Print - 17.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
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Le Cerf se Voyant dans l'Eau
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
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Le Lion s'en Allant en Guerre
Marc Chagall
Print - 41.7 x 34.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.4 x 13.5 x 0.1 inch
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Œuvre originale de Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet
Sculpture - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
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Tête de jeune femme, ca.
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 47.5 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 18.7 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
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Pierrot avec Parapluie (Man with Umbrella)
Marc Chagall
Print - 35.6 x 29.2 cm Print - 14 x 11.5 inch
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Chevalet + Tableau + Palette
Etienne Boissier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
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Bouquet of daisies
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 70 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
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Rose fairy tale
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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L'enfer de Dante / La Harpie
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
L'Enfer de Dante / Hélas
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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The sounds of a flying bird
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Bouquet de fleurs dans son vase Gallé
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
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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
$3,349
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
$3,684 $3,131
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
$3,349
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
$2,009
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
$2,009 $1,708
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
$2,456
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
$3,795
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
$2,902 $2,467
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
$3,349
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
$3,349
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
$2,902 $2,467
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
$2,456 $2,087
Domenica D'Agosto, Monochrome
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
Domenica D'Agosto
Fred Borghesi
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$4,019
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
$3,349
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
$3,349
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
$3,349
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
$3,907 $3,321
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
$2,902
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
$3,126
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
$3,684
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.