The Agonies of Love by Ernst Kirchner Size:M - 50 x 70cm Renoir's gestural brushwork and luminous

Renoir's gestural brushwork and luminous colour transitions are preserved with fine tonal accuracy and crisp detail on matte paper

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

This is Kandinsky working in the mature Bauhaus register

There is no careful botanical record here — Monet is after sensation: the warmth of late summer

The Agonies of Love by Ernst Kirchner Size:M - 50 x 70cm Renoir's gestural brushwork and luminousErnst 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