"German School, 1952, Portrait Of A Boy"
GERMAN SCHOOL, 1952PORTRAIT OF A BOY
Watercolor on paper, signed and dated indistinctly “1952”
62 × 43 cm / 24.4 × 16.9 in
framed: 67 × 48 cm / 26.4 × 18.9 in
This sensitive portrait of a boy belongs to the rich tradition of German figurative art of the post-war period. The theme of childhood, so memorably embodied in the works of Zinaida Serebriakova, finds a strong echo here: the freshness of the color, the intimacy of the profile view, and the immediacy of expression recall her influence. The anonymous German artist, working in 1952, captured the delicate psychological presence of the child with remarkable simplicity and refinement.
Provenance: Austria, Private collection
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