Henryk Berlewi (1894-1967), Portrait Paris, 1953
Charcoal drawing on paper, 64x48cm
Signed and dated lower right corner.
Condition: Very good (slightly bent corners and slight discoloration)
The work was executed in Paris in the middle of the 20th century.
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Polish painter, printmaker and art theorist, one of the most important representatives of the European avant-garde. He studied in Warsaw, Antwerp and Paris. In the 1920s he became associated with the Constructivist community in Berlin, where he developed his most important concept - mechanofaktura, based on rhythm, flatness, geometrization of forms and a limited color palette (black, white, red). This theory became one of the precursor links of later op-art and minimal art.
Previously associated with the Jung Idysz group, he created expressionist works with Jewish themes. After 1926, he returned to figuration, working mainly in portraiture and graphic design. From 1933 he lived in Paris, where he continued his artistic and critical activities. In the 1950s he turned again to abstraction, and his work was rediscovered and appreciated.
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