Les élus et les damnés. Photographie it is no longer a

it is no longer a question of imitating or being inspired

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The death of Ambroise Vollard in 1937 interrupted the publication of the work

David Seidner

shedding new light on his conception of art

Les élus et les damnés. Photographie it is no longer aThe drawings of Louis Soutter's later years carry within them a contagious energy. Works of confinement and frustration, they open and question. Works of a man spellbound, they are spellbinding. Drawn in Indian ink and most often with his fingertips, without pen or brush, as if in direct contact with the nervous system, they are figures, men and women, often in profile, silhouettes without shadows, shadows themselves, walking, running, stumbling,