1927
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1927 graphite by Alfred Kubin, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a shadowy figure hunched over a table, holding a small object like a key or tool. The background looks like a cluttered room with shelves and a window covered by heavy curtains. The lines are rough and scratchy, almost like scribbles. The artist used lots of overlapping lines to build up dark shapes—this is called cross-hatching. It makes the scene feel tense and unclear. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how other artists use it.
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and writer of a single novel, The Other Side. Kubin is considered an important exponent of Symbolism and Expressionism.
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