1950
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1950 ink by Cuno Amiet, depicting Mary Magdalene, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This is a black-and-white print of a woman’s face. Her features are soft, almost melting—eyes half-closed, lips slightly parted. Amiet made this in 1950, late in his career, when he was playing with looser, more expressive lines. The lithograph (a printmaking method where you draw on stone) lets the lines feel alive, like quick sketches rather than polished work. To see how other artists used loose lines in portraits, look up lithography.
Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.
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