Artist: Marcel Vertès (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895–1961)
Series: Scènes galantes
Place/Date: Paris, 1920–1921
Medium: Colour lithograph on paper
Dimensions: Sheet 496 × 400 mm; image 310 × 265 mm
Edition: 20/50
Signatures/marks: Signed in the image Vertès 192X; numbered 20/50 in pencil on lower margin (bottom left)
Description:
Pastoral scene with a bare-breasted, partially draped young woman reclining in a hammock tied to a tree; tasselled cords at left; distant hill crowned by a small round temple. Painterly colour blocks and swift contour lines are typical of Vertès’s interwar lithographs.
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Additional Information
| Collection | European prints and drawings |
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| Type / Purpose | Print , Works on paper |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Country | France |
| Media/Technique | Chromolithography , Lithography , Paper , Wove paper |
| Genre | Genre Scene |
| Subject | 20th century , Art Deco , Erotica , France , Genre-piece , Hammock , Landscape , Modern art , Nude , Paris , Pastoral , Scène galante , Trees , Woman , Young woman |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1920 , 1921 |
| Acquisition year | 2025 |
