New York From Central Park III

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1930  

etching with drypoint 

11 3/4 x 16 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

9/100; only about 10 printed 

pencil titled and editioned; Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; also inscribed along lower sheet edge: "printed a. 10" 

No. 121 on the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949 

ivory simile vellum wove paper 

published 

artist 

22529 

$600.00 

Central Park is blanketed in heavy snow in Max Pollak's depiction of the famous New York attraction, lined in the reaching branches of bare trees and crowned by the city skyline. Pollak hadn't been in the U.S. for very long when he created this work, having arrived at the end of 1927, but New York proved to be a source of inspiration to the artist already known for his depictions of European cities and villages.