
Tancredi Parmeggiani
Untitled (Composition)
1955
Louis Marcoussis
1920
Marcoussis, born in Warsaw with the name Ludwig Markus, changed his name ca. 1912. Comparison between this seated figure—with a hat, playing dominoes on a green baize table, smoking a cigar—and a similar subject in Picasso’s The Poet exemplifies some technical and visual differences between early and late Cubism: the addition of sand to the pigment, the solid planes and variety of color, and the flat patterns of wood and wallpaper endorse the image’s flat surface, in contrast to the shattered, prismatic atmosphere of The Poet.
Artist | Louis Marcoussis |
Original Title | L'Habitué |
Date | 1920 |
Medium | Oil with sand and pebbles on canvas |
Dimensions | 161.9 x 97 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 22 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
Copy caption
Tancredi Parmeggiani
1955
Conrad Marca-Relli
1956
Giorgio de Chirico
1913
On view
Leonora Carrington
1959