Les XX, Bruxelles : catalogue
This 1884 exhibition catalogue from Les XX, a Brussels group of avant-garde artists, lists works by its members and guests for a Belgian public. The pictures are loose pen-and-ink sketches and handwritten annotations: a smoky cottage with a signed scrawl, a seated figure drawn in quick hatched lines, and a bold, stripped-down outline of a seated figure in a patterned coat. A designer might take the spontaneous, fast-line energy of these sketches and the way handwriting and drawing share the page.
