Augustus John — The Marchesa Casati | Fine Art Print

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Augustus John — The Marchesa Casati | Fine Art PrintAugustus John (18781961) was the most celebrated British portraitist of the first half of the 20th century, renowned for his flamboyant personality and his commanding, psychologically penetrating portraits. His sitters included Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, T. E. Lawrence, and Tallulah Bankhead. His portrait of the Marchesa Casati the most painted woman of the 20th century captures its subject's legendary extravagance with characteristic force. Printed

with its stark geometric forms

harlequins

His views of Venice — luminous

His output — from the introspective From My Life series to his charming architectural sketches and spare figurative works — reflects the cultural richness and formal experimentation of Viennese modernism between the wars

Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) was the supreme master of the Rinpa school — Japan's most decorative and design-forward artistic tradition — and the artist whose cranes

The Bauhaus Ausstellung posters

giving them a warmth and particularity that distinguishes Kosler from many of his contemporaries in the genre

Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991) was one of the leading landscape printmakers of the Shin Hanga movement — an artist whose nocturnal urban scenes

and a new interest in individual characterisation that produced some of the most psychologically penetrating portraits of the pre-modern world

and decorative works — that are now held in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the defining figures of Western modern art — the supreme colourist

which he designed as a living artwork

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