(Tragedy)

 

Albert Edward Sterner

  1863 - 1946 (biography)

c. 1934  

drawing in ink, crayon & pencil 

11 1/4 x 8 1/4" image size 

within image, lower left 

1 of 1 unique 

none 

 

drawn on the back of a 1934 "marmon" car advertisement 

 

 

13953 

$600.00 

A nude figure stands in a forest, grasping a large knife. The scene is being viewd by five people in the background, each reacting to the event. This was perhaps a preparatory drawing for an opera or some stage event that Sterner was working on.