Dancer (Danseuse)

Accession Number
1967/2.43

Title
Dancer (Danseuse)

Artist(s)
Gino Severini

Artist Nationality
Italian (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1955

Medium & Support
color lithograph on paper

Dimensions
22 1/16 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38 cm);28 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (71.28 x 56.04 cm);22 1/16 x 15 1/16 in. (55.9 x 38.2 cm);19 5/16 x 12 5/8 in. (49 x 32 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kripke

Label copy
The Italian artist Gino Severini moved from Milan to Paris in 1906. After visiting a large Cubist exhibition in 1912, the artist abandoned his early enthusiasm for the Italian Futurist movement with its emphasis on dynamic, sometimes violent, change and evolved his own brightly colored and appealingly decorative version of Cubism.

Subject matter
Severini's treatment of a dancer in motion conveys the harmony and dynamism of the figure's movements rendered in a highly abstracted form.

Physical Description
An explosion of colorful forms suggests the human form in dynamic movement. Yellows and reds predominate in shapes that draw the eye toward the viewer's upper right where three roughy triangular yellow shapes suggest a head and upraised arms.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract (fine arts style)
Cubist
Futurist
abstraction
color lithographs
dancers
modern and contemporary art

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