L'Astrologue (The Astrologer) [plate 1]
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drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 20 x 19.7 cm (7 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 30 x 29 cm (11 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Moses and Ruth Helen Lasky, San Francisco, Harlan B. and Marshall R. Levine, Trustees
Accession Number
2005.144.1.1
Art Historical Context
**L'Astrologue (The Astrologer)plate 1]**, created by Louis Casimir Ladlas Marcoussis in1946, invites visitors into the mystical world of postwar printmaking. Marcoussis, a Polish-born artist who became a key figure in early 20th-century Cubism alongside Picasso and Braque, excelled in translating the movement's fragmented forms into intricate engravings. This drypoint, plate 1 from a portfolio, captures an astrologer amid geometric abstractions evoking the era's with science, mysticism, the cosmos just after World II. Produced posthumously—Marcoussis passed away in 1941—it reflects his enduri...