HENRI NOUVEAU INK AND PENCIL STUDY

HENRI NOUVEAU, BORN HENRIK NEUGEBOREN (1901-1959).  PEN AND PENCIL STUDY ON PAPER FOR A LARGER PROJECT.  PAINTED FRAME.  STAMPED AND DATED LOWER RIGHT.

ORIGINATING IN THE BAUHAUS MOVEMENT IN BERLIN IN THE LATE 1920'S HE MOVED PERMANENTLY TO PARIS WHERE HE CONTINUED TO WORK UNTIL HIS EARLY DEATH IN 1959. AS AN ARTIST HE ADOPTED THE NAME HENRI NOUVEAU EXHIBTING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PARIS IN 1930 WHERE AFTER A SHORT SURREALISTIC PERIOD HE CONTINUED TO WORK IN AN ABSTRACT GEOMETRIC STYLE OFTEN INCORRECTLY CALLED CUBIST. IT WAS WITH THIS WORK THAT HE GAINED INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION, EXHIBITING ACROSS THE WORLD.
THE MUSÉE PICASSO IN ANTIBES DEVOTED AN ENTIRE RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION TO HIS WORK IN 1989. HIS WORKS CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN GALLERIES SUCH AS THE MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE PINAKOTHEK IN MUNICH.