Lot #970: OSKAR SCHLEMMER - Figur - Pen and ink drawing

 

Artist: Oskar Schlemmer (German, 1888 - 1943).
Title: "Figur".
Medium: Pen and ink drawing.
Date: Composed 1921.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 1/4 x 7 9/16 in. (286 x 192 mm). Image size: 9 x 6 1/2 in. (229 x 165 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower center. Cream wove paper. Overall condition good to very good; some slight discoloration to sheet, upper left, recto. Comment(s): Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. Many of his celebrated works involve the representation of bodies as architectural forms, reducing the figure to a rhythmic play between convex, concave, and flat surfaces. [26874-2-2400]