Amalfi

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1932  

etching and color aquatint 

17 1/4 x 13" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

14; 20 impressions printed 

pencil titled, in lower left; also in lower left corner of the paper inscribed "printed a 20"; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak 

No. 69 on the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949 

fine, antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

22550 

SOLD

Amalfi is an ancient, picturesque town in the province of Salerno, Italy on the Gulf of Salerno. It was the seat of a powerful maritime republic between the 9th and 11th centuries. In Pollak’s etching the town’s colorful buildings appear to teeter on the hillside and the top of the bell tower of the Amalfi Cathedral looms above the town. The bell tower was constructed between the 12th and 13th centuries and is topped by a crown elaborately decorated with marble and majolica in the Arab-Norman style. In medieval culture, Amalfi was famous for its flourishing schools of law and mathematics.

In this time of catastrophic events, we are fortunate that Max Pollak and other artists left visual records of so many historic and beautiful sites.