Tag: Cercle et Carré

  • Portrait of Florence Henri (Solarization), 1942

    Portrait of Florence Henri (Solarization), 1942

    Florence Henri, a German-French artist born in New York in 1893, studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and took up photography at the Bauhaus school in Dessau in 1927, taught by Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy. She then opened her own photography studio in Paris. Her experimental work was compared with the photography of…

  • Portrait of Joaquín Torres García, Montevideo, 1949

    Portrait of Joaquín Torres García, Montevideo, 1949

    Joaquín Torres García (1874-1949) was one of the most influential Uruguayan avant-garde artists of the 20th century. Born in Montevideo, he studied Fine Art in Barcelona and worked, among other commissions, on the window murals of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. After travelling with his family to Paris, New York and Italy, combining his painting activities and…