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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
$1,342
Le Cirque Fantastique
Marc Chagall
Print - 41.5 x 52 x 0.3 cm Print - 16.3 x 20.5 x 0.1 inch
$14,540
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
$4,250
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
$2,684
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
$5,469
Don quixote et le duegne barbue
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$4,250
Composition
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 60 x 49 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,172
Landing in paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Pearls of Mallorca. View from the bird’s eye
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
Dreaming of paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
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
$9,507
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
$12,639
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
$783
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
$1,901
Serie Mallorca 3
Toni Caldentey
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.04 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,013
Serie Mallorca 2
Toni Caldentey
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.04 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,013
Serie Mallorca 1
Toni Caldentey
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.04 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,013
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
$2,013
Le voyage de l'apprentissage
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$2,013
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
$2,013
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
$495
Sacrifices Made to the Nymphs, from Daphnis and Chloe
Marc Chagall
Print - 54 x 38.1 cm Print - 21.25 x 15 inch
$19,995
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
$2,013
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
$2,013
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
$2,908
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
$3,355
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
$3,691
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
$2,461
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
$3,132
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
$4,026
Sans titre (Foudre)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 19.3 inch
$1,342
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
$2,013
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
$1,090
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
$2,013
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
$839
Sans titre (Amphores)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$839
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
$1,678
Sacrifices made to the nymphs
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$7,223
La Cathédrale
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 108.5 x 89 x 1 cm Painting - 42.7 x 35 x 0.4 inch
$2,321
Good luck bird
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355 $3,020
Perdre ciel et terre
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$5,592
Sur la terre des Dieux (Planche 7)
Marc Chagall
Print - 64.5 x 49.5 cm Print - 25.4 x 19.5 inch
$6,934
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
$3,355
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
$3,691
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
$3,355
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
$2,461
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
$3,803
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
$3,355
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
$2,908
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
$3,355
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
$3,355
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
$3,355
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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