St Anthony of Padua ...Polish folk woodcut c 1810/30

Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) ...Final, woodcut 1899

The woodcut with its dark masses, with its "face" striving out of chaos to the light, simple, simple and yet immensely strong in the language, I needed, and jubilantly I clung to him as he said to me: "Take Me, I will help you to express what is raging and roaring within you. " Like a demon, he always stood before me and drove me to restless work. Soon I realized its value for my art. WL 1917

Lado Davidovich Gudiashvili (Georgia, 1896 –1980)...Headless spouse ,ink on paper 1942

Lado Davidovich Gudiashvili (Georgia, 1896 –1980)...Boy with Deer oil on canvas 1924.