Untitled is a 1908 ink by Lovis Corinth, depicting Sheet Music, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a jagged black-and-white print of a woman’s face—eyes closed, mouth open, hair wild. This was the cover for a sheet-music edition of *Elektra*, a dark opera by Richard Strauss. Corinth made it in one quick sitting, using greasy crayon on stone. The lines look raw, almost scribbled, yet the emotion feels sharp. To see how ink on paper can feel this alive, look up the technique: lithography.
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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