F rom a distinguished private European collection, this group of seven lots represents a tantalising array of works on paper by some of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century. Signifying the impeccable eye of a true connoisseur, they range from Surrealism to the British avant-garde and are d🐻emonstrative of an extraordinary appreciation and understand൩ing of the power and beauty of modernist draughtsmanship.
The collection is led by 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Henry Moore’s remarkable 1942 work 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Two People Looking at a Sculpture. During the war, when Moore could not focus on sculpture, he became immersed in the pursuit of drawing, investigating new forms and subject matter that charted the๊ themes that would come to define his later works.
The four works by Moore highlight the artist’s ๊exceptional talent as a draughtsman; the artist considered the use of drawing as a tool to study natural forms, for the development of his sculpture and importantly as finished ♉artworks in their own right.
168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Alexej von Jawlensky’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Abstrakter Kopf, meanwhile, is a vibrant product of German Expressionism, of which Jawlensky was a pioneer, alongside his friend 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Wassily Kandinsky. With the aim of liberating painting from figuration, Jawlensky and the Der Blaue Reiter group explored the effects of abstraction, resulting in a spiritual dimension on the canvas which harmoniously unites humanity and nature. Abstrakter Kopf is a highly accomplished expression of the impact of col🧸our and line.
It is accompanied here by George Grosz’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Die Strasse, undoubtedly an example of the artist’s best drawings from the 1910s and reflective of the Neue Sachlichkeit, the German ꩵmodern realist movement that came to fruition in the 1920s.
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The diversity of the group reflects their col𝔍lector’s artistic outlook, one that disregards geographical borders and holds quality and refinement in the highest esteem. Each was produಞced in the period for which the respective artist is most renowned.
They are joined by a 1935 gouache, watercolour and ink drawing entitled 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:La Dormeuse by 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Joan Miró which encapsulates the artist’s angst-ridden imagination, sparked by the Spanish Civil War and will be offered in 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Sotheby’s Surrealist Sale on 26 February.
