Sur la plage, 1931
Louis Marcoussisexpand_more
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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fundexpand_more P.71.163
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A few years after moving to Paris in 1903, a young Ludwig Markus met Cubist painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They influenced Markus's style and also his name; it was Apollinaire who suggested he change it to Marcoussis, after a village just south of Paris. After 1930 Marcoussis largely devoted himself to printmaking. More than other Cubists, he evoked a sense of nature and personal feeling in his works, as demonstrated by the intertwined hands below the couple here. The year he made this print, Marcoussis also illustrated a book by Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara. In pencil, the artist inscribed this print to Tzara and his wife, painter Greta Knutson.
Details
- Title
- Sur la plage
- Artist Life
- French (born Poland), 1883 - 1941
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.71.163
- Provenance
- (Goldschmidt Galleries, New York); sold to MIA, 1971.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Lafranchis G 80
- Curator Approved
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