Korcula, wharf by Max Pollak

Korcula, wharf by Max Pollak

Korcula, wharf

Max Pollak

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Title

Korcula, wharf

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1925  
Technique
etching and color aquatint 
Image Size
13 5/16 x 16 3/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
2/10 (only eight impressions pulled) 
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned; bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in the lower left; pencil annotated "printed a. 8" along lower sheet edge 
Reference
 
Paper
cream Van Gelder Zonen laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22835 
Price
$400.00 
Description

The Croatian island of Korcula (Corcula) is considered one of the most picturesque villages in the world. Korcula was once famous for its wooden shipbuilding, as depicted here. Like Whistler, Pollak often chose to illustrate the backstreets rather than the grandueur that most other artists depicted. This composition focuses on what was the backbone of the island for centuries, before tourism, leading the focus of the viewer to the skeletal structure of a ship, then a completed ship, fit with sails - then up the hill to the city and the mountains in the background.

Shipbuilders were called "kalafati" and were sent throughout the Adriatic and the Mediterraean to teach the craft, and even went as far the Americas in the 19th century. The town no longer produces these historic ships but it is still known as a maritime destination.

 

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