Foolish Virgins
Print
1928 (made)
1928 (made)
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Although he spent most of his adult life living in Paris, the painter and graphic artist Konstanty Brandel often visited his native Poland and continued to consider himself a Polish artist. His work may be described as Symbolist and has much in common with that of figures such as Odilon Redon and Gustave Doré, although Hieronymus Bosch, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Francisco de Goya have also been cited as possible influences.
Brandel’s imagery often includes architecture or disturbing landscapes. Both are frequently inhabited by men, women and animals engaged in strange or ritualistic behaviour and sometimes endowed with supernatural powers such as the ability to float or fly. This image appears to be a study for a larger or more elaborate work and shows female figures tumbling through space against a vaguely sketched architectural backdrop.
Brandel’s imagery often includes architecture or disturbing landscapes. Both are frequently inhabited by men, women and animals engaged in strange or ritualistic behaviour and sometimes endowed with supernatural powers such as the ability to float or fly. This image appears to be a study for a larger or more elaborate work and shows female figures tumbling through space against a vaguely sketched architectural backdrop.
Object details
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Title | Foolish Virgins (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Etching |
Brief description | Etching by Konstanty Brandel, "Vierges folles [Foolish virgins]", 1928. |
Physical description | Female figures falling against a thinly sketched architecture- mostly sketchily drawn, but one, in violently contraposto pose, picked out and more heavily worked. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Brandel (Signed in pencil on plate at lower right.) |
Credit line | Given by the artist's uncle, Witold Leitgeber |
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Summary | Although he spent most of his adult life living in Paris, the painter and graphic artist Konstanty Brandel often visited his native Poland and continued to consider himself a Polish artist. His work may be described as Symbolist and has much in common with that of figures such as Odilon Redon and Gustave Doré, although Hieronymus Bosch, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Francisco de Goya have also been cited as possible influences. Brandel’s imagery often includes architecture or disturbing landscapes. Both are frequently inhabited by men, women and animals engaged in strange or ritualistic behaviour and sometimes endowed with supernatural powers such as the ability to float or fly. This image appears to be a study for a larger or more elaborate work and shows female figures tumbling through space against a vaguely sketched architectural backdrop. |
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Bibliographic reference | Konstanty Brandel Muzeum Narodow w Warszawie, Galeria Szfuki Wspolczesnej. Warsaw Listopad- grudzien 1977. Prints cat no. 312 |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.1453-1993 |
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Record created | September 7, 2006 |
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