Seahorses by Max Pollak
Seahorses
Max Pollak
Title
Seahorses
Artist
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Year
c. 1940
Technique
etching and aquatint in green-black ink
Image Size
13 15/16 x 10 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
18 of 30
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned
Reference
Paper
ivory similie-vellum
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
22850
Price
SOLD
Description
Max Pollak did this intaglio based on his observations in Mexico and Central America. He uses a black etched line to define the composition -- a small herd of seahorses, tails attached to stalks of seaweed and fish drifting by.
Using aquatint and a black-green ink he creates an underwater landscape, the bottom of a shallow, tropical sea. The Pacific coast was the source of a number of Pollak's printed images.