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S/N LE Johnny Friedlaender Fine Art PRINT Epure 1985 EA

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:2,350.00 - 2,750.00 USD
S/N LE Johnny Friedlaender Fine Art PRINT Epure 1985 EA
Offered here is a richly toned etching and aquatint print by the late German master Johnny Friedlaender. Epure shows the artist working at the height of his powers in the complex art of printmaking. A truly stunning piece!


Artist: Johnny Friedlaender
Title: Epure
Date: 1985
Signed and numbered "EA" (Épreuve D'Artiste: an artist's proof)
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Sheet size: 22frac12; by 30 inches
Image size: 15frac12; by 20frac12; inches
Condition: Very good with a long crease and some smaller creases to upper left corner, all easily matted out in framing
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Midwest Estate Buyers


Johnny Friedlaender's early studies were in Breslau under Otto Mueller. He later moved to Dresden and in 1935 he fled the Nazis by going to Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he moved to the Hague, Holland, where he first exhibited. Eventually, Friedlaender found himself in Paris.

During the war, the artist worked in the French Resistance in the south of France. After the war, he returned to live and work in Paris though he paid frequent visits to the United States, where he taught and published some of his most important etchings. Though a fine abstract painter, he was one of the most important masters and teachers of colored etching of the post-war years. His techniques influenced Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17 and many other of his contemporaries.

During his long life, Friedlaender produced hundreds of etchings and the still incomplete catalogue runs into four volumes.
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