The Beautiful Line

Bukowskis presents The Beautiful Line, a themed auction that celebrates the line as a powerful and timeless expression in modernist graphics. The auction includes prints by prominent artists such as Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. These prints were created for and published as part of books and editions by prestigious publishers such as Mourlot and Maeght.

Mourlot, the legendary French lithography studio, worked with artists such as Picasso and Miró to innovate the technical and artistic expression of printmaking. Maeght, a French publishing house and gallery, was a central platform for the Surrealist and Abstractionist movements and helped to disseminate these ideas through its book editions.

The works in the auction reflect the line's crucial role in conveying the mysticism of Surrealism, the structural innovation of Cubism, and the harmonious balance of Abstraction, while also bearing traces of the publishers‘ important support for the artists’ visions. ‘The Beautiful Line’ offers a unique opportunity to acquire prints that capture the expressive language of modernism.