Sunset

 

Werner Drewes

  1899 - 1985 (biography)

1944 /75 

engraving and softground etching 

4 3/4 x 10 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

5/XXV, 2nd edition 

pencil dated and editioned; annotated "1944 sculp., 1975 imp." 

Rose 226 II 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

MCT118 

$1,300.00 

In classic Cubist style, Werner Drewes depicts three nude figures at the seaside, a sailboat and setting sun in the distance. Working in the same precise manner in which he portrays cityscapes, Drewes breaks up light and shadow in rhythmic blocks, breaking up the near-rigidity with the curving lines of organic forms - in this case, the human body. Though his artistic career took root in representational imagery, Drewes found great inspiration in the abstract work he was surrounded by on his arrival in New York in 1930, and he quickly adapted to this new world of expression. “Sunset,” with its balance between figural and abstract genres and it’s vibrant, energetic composition, illustrates Drewes path toward non-representational imagery, as well as his enjoyment of the process.