1902
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1902 graphite by Lovis Corinth, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a woman curled on her side, eyes closed, one hand tucked under her cheek. Corinth drew his wife, Charlotte, while she napped. The lines are quick, almost scribbled, but the folds of the blanket and the curve of her shoulder feel alive. He didn’t smooth anything out—you can still see the pencil’s first nervous marks. Look up cross-hatching to see how other artists build shadows with crisscrossed lines.
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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