The Agonies of Love by Ernst Kirchner Size:M - 50 x 70cm while overlapping lobes of colour

while overlapping lobes of colour create a rhythmic

shifting with each viewing

and a dark snake charmer emerge from the dense foliage in a scene that defies any rational geography

allowing the illustration's linework and ink washes to hold full attention

This vintage travel poster frames New York harbour with the confident optimism of mid-century graphic illustration — the Statue of Liberty commanding the foreground while the Manhattan skyline rises in layered silhouette behind

The Agonies of Love by Ernst Kirchner Size:M - 50 x 70cm while overlapping lobes of colourErnst Ludwig Kirchner brings to The Agonies of Love the visual vocabulary that made Die Brcke one of the defining forces in early twentieth century art angular forms, compressed space, and a colour temperature that runs hot with psychological intensity. The figures carry the tension of the work in their postures and contours, rendered with the deliberate roughness that Kirchner and his contemporaries championed against the smooth finish of academic