1919
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Das Gastmahl des Trimalchio: pl. VII (The Banquet of Trimalchio: pl. VII) is a 1919 ink by Lovis Corinth, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two people walking with a dog between them. The lines are loose and fast, like quick scribbles. One person wears a hat, and the other is barefoot, with a boat in the background. The artist used a drypoint technique—scratching lines into a metal plate to make prints. The paper is plain white, letting the black ink stand out. Look up technique: drypoint to see how this method works.
Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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