Paris: On the Seine

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

drypoint with roulette 

4 5/16 x 13 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated' presumed small 

pencil titled, lower elft; red "FPC" Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet corner; stamped "Made in Austria" on the verso 

 

cream Van Gelder Zonen wove 

published 

artist 

22705 

SOLD

This appears to depict the pre-war Pontoise bridge in Pontoise, France, with Paris in the background. After being destroyed in the many bombings of World War II, it was rebuilt as a temporary pedestrian bridge and then eventually demolished.