Brittany

 

Karl Schmidt

  1890 - 1962 (biography)

1913  

charcoal, ink and wash drawing with varnish 

6 3/4 x 5-1/2" image size 

signed in ink in lower left 

 

titled in ink and dated 1913 in lower left margin 

 

antique-white wove 

 

 

CAAL173 

SOLD

American artist Karl Schmidt (1890-1962) was 23 years old and studying art in England and France when he did this dramatic drawing of the landscape in Brittany. The style, a nod to British artist Frank Branqwyn, is a precursor to his later California landscapes with tall Eucalypti.