Le Coq (Cock)

 

Arpad Szenes

  1898 - 1985 (biography)

1934  

engraving and etching 

4 5/16 x 5 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

2 of 20  

titled, dated and editioned in pencil; verso: ; verso: No4 / Le Coq / 150 frs. / Arpad Szenes 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist at Atelier 17 in Paris 

16219 

$1,000.00 

This intaglio by Szenes uses softground with texture impressed into the ground combined with engraving. The title describe the action within the image: a large gray figure highlighted with engraving give the impression o f a large crowing rooster. This image bring to mind Miro's work for the “Solidarité” portfolio of 1938, which was dedicated to the people of Spain.