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J.FRIEDLAENDER H.Sig. Etching Homer

Currency:USD Category:Art / General - Paintings Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
J.FRIEDLAENDER H.Sig. Etching Homer
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JOHNNY FRIEDLAENDER [Gotthard]
Pless, Silesia 1912 - 1992

Homeros - The Swimmer - 1953
Original Hand Signed Etching

Title: Homeros - The Swimmer.

Technique: Original Etching on old laid "Marais"paper.

Paper size: 24 x 16.5 cm / 9.5 x 6.5 in

Additional Information: This original etching is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist att he lower right margin.
It was printed in 1953 in the "Homeros: Nausikaa - Episoden".
The edition was of only 125 impressions plus a few artist proofs that this is one of them.
This early and rare etching represents the early part of Friedlaender career, before his compositios became more abstract. It's a fine example of the period just before the abstraction but still not a complete figurative composition.

Literature:Johnny Friedlaender: Radierungen 1930-1972, by Rolf Schmucking, Verlag Galerie Schmucking Braunschweig 1973.
Reference: Schmucking no. 112.

Condition: Excellent condition. Tape remains on the reverse.