1924
gouache
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1924 gouache by Henryk Berlewi, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is all black shapes on a light background. There’s a row of tall, thin rectangles leaning like a tower, a line of shrinking circles, and two empty rings. On the right, some squares and bars stand in neat rows. The artist used gouache—a paint that’s water-soluble and matte. The colors are just black and white, but the arrangement feels deliberate, almost like a puzzle. Check out gouache next to see how this paint works.
Henryk Berlewi (Yiddish: הענריק בערלעװי; October 20, 1894 – August 2, 1967) was a Polish-French painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical…
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