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Paris, Greengrocer by Max Pollak

Paris, Greengrocer by Max Pollak

Paris, Greengrocer

Max Pollak

Title

Paris, Greengrocer

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1926  
Technique
etching and color aquatint, printed a la poupée 
Image Size
8 7/8 x 10 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
10 of 50  
Annotations
pencil titled, in lower left; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak; also inscribed "printed app. 50" in lower left corner of the paper; pencil titled in the lower left corner of the paper 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory laid Bergisch Gladbach with full watermarks 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22568 
Price
SOLD
Description

Max Pollak did this color intaglio using etching and color aquatint, which he printed a la poupée, so each impression will vary a bit.

Max and Friedl Pollak were in Paris in the mid 1920s. Max, like he would continue to do throughout his artistic life, recorded the environment with his intaglios of the city. Like Whistler before him, he often responded to the small, intimate scenes of everyday Parisian life.

This intaglio focuses on a greengrocer on a Parisian side street, located in an ancient building, with haphazard awnings providing cover for baskets and boxes of fruit and vegetables. The only color in the composition are the goods: carrots, bananas, cucumbers, etc. At the lower right two shoppers are making selections as another approaches.