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 

SOLD

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.