Dancers

Lill Tschudi Swiss

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

Six figures in top hats and tails—costumes reminiscent of a cabaret—encircle two other dancers engaged in a pas de deux. This composition owes its dynamic rhythms to its simplified, stylized forms and flat planes of color—features of linoleum-block printing, a new technique that the Swiss-born Tschudi learned at the Grosvenor School of Art in London and practiced to prolific and masterful ends.

Dancers, Lill Tschudi (Swiss, Schwanden 1911–2004 Schwanden), Linocut

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