Ephraim Rubenstein

Renowned for his figures, an artist turns to the geometric bodies of cities and nighttime shadows.

Exceptionally modest, reserved to a fault and largely unknown outside her immediate circle, Robin Smith is, nonetheless, one of the nest portrait/figure painters working today.

Whether at a court ball or at a burial, on the street or in a moving train, the German draftsman Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) exploited every opportunity that presented itself to record on paper whatever caught his eye.