Description:

Jais Nielsen painting
Jais Nielsen, 1885-1961, oil on canvas. "Julenat" (Christmas night)
Signed and dated 1915
Image size: 83x67cm. With frame: 95x79cm

Jais Nielsen (1885–1961) was a Danish painter and ceramicist and a central figure in the Danish breakthrough of modernism. During his stay in Paris 1911–1914 he encountered Cubism, which became a decisive inspiration for his painting. He developed a distinctive Cubist idiom with angular lines, simplified forms, shallow pictorial depth and fragmentation of the motif, as also seen in the present work
Item number: 1668