Expressionist Painting on Canvas, Framed

Liebespaar is German for a pair of lovers. Here they are, in paint laid on thick.

This framed Expressionist painting, oil on canvas, is titled Liebespaar, and the artist is unknown. German Expressionists of the early 20th century favored raw color and agitated surfaces over polite description, and this canvas shares that appetite, whatever its origins. A pale green nude lies across the foreground on a red-marked ground. A darker figure bends over her, and a green animal prowls the upper right. Reds and ochres crowd behind them, with words scrawled in the upper left. The frame measures 57 inches wide and 45.5 high.

The artist is unknown. The subject is not.