Sunday, November 3, 2024

Faces of the 1920s

Frank Dobson
Two Heads
1921
sandston
Courtauld Gallery, London

Heinrich Stegemann
Portrait of Ingeborg Krause Stegemann
1925
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Alvar Cawén
Self Portrait
1923
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Max Beckmann
Double Portrait
1923
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

André Lhote
Portrait of Anne F.
1928
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

James Ensor
Girl with Masks (Communion)
1921
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Philip de László
Portrait of Clarice de Rothschild
1925
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gaston Schnegg
Self Portrait
1924
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Anita Rée
Portrait of Hildegard Heise
1927
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Karl Kluth
Portrait of a Young Man
1923
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Otto Dix
Portrait of Josef May
1926
tempera and oil on board
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Otto Rodewald
Portrait of Gerda Margarethe Rück
1929
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Lovis Corinth
Last Self Portrait
1925
oil on canvas
Kunsthaus, Zürich

Walt Kuhn
Woman with a Black Necklace
1928
oil on canvas
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

Jean Hugo
Double Portrait of Jean Cocteau
1923
drawing
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Chaїm Soutine
Le Valet de Chambre
1927-28
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

A strange, unserviceable thing,
A fragile, exquisite, pale shell,
That the vast troubled waters bring
To the loud sands before day has broken.
The storm arose and suddenly fell
Amid the dark before day had broken.
What death? what discipline?
What bonds no man could unbind,
Being imagined within
The labyrinth of the mind,
What pursuing or fleeing,
What wounds, what bloody press,
Dragged into being
This loveliness?

– W.B. Yeats (1919)