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Landscape

Artist André Lhote (French, 1885 - 1962)
Date1925
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches (20.96 × 29.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Jane Wade in memory of Curt Valentin
Object number59-48/8
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André Lhote’s pen and ink landscape features a cluster of buildings, billowing foliage, and distant hills, all rendered in a delicate style, leaving large sections of the paper blank.

Compare this work with Feininger’s Vollersroda III nearby. Both are Cubist in the emphasis on geometric forms, but Lhote’s lines are much subtler in comparison to Feininger’s bold charcoal shapes and moody shading. While Lhote’s artwork may be sparse in terms of detail, it effectively communicates a hillside town, possibly in Provence, France, rendering the changing elevation of the landscape and the placement of the buildings within that space.

Copyright© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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