Curatorial Narrative The anonymous artist’s Au Louvre Et 1923 occupies a unique position within the Art Deco canon, its modernist underpinnings tempered by a figural subject that belies the style’s typically sleek and abstracted forms. Upon close inspection, one discovers a masterful handling of fine brushwork, with delicate strokes imbuing the scene with an almost palpable sense of atmosphere. The artist’s palette a rich tapestry of reds, beiges, grays, blacks, and whites is at once both modernist in its emphasis on flat, geometric forms and nostalgic for the traditional figurative art of previous centuries. When enlarged to 44×61, the artwork’s spatial depth and chromatic structure assert themselves with increased force. The artist’s use of atmospheric perspective, whereby distant elements recede into a haze of gray and beige, creates an almost three-dimensional sense of space within the flat plane. In a luxury interior envir