Ink on paper;
Signed and dated lower right;
14.17 × 23.62 in inch framed;
In the rare animal depictions by the German painter and graphic artist Rudolf Schlichter (1890–1955), the characteristic biting social criticism of New Objectivity gives way to a more enigmatic, almost surreal poetic quality. Here, animals are presented less as subjects of scientific observation and more as spiritual companions or allegorical symbols, situated in a tension between untamed nature and civilization.
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