Winter No. 3, Miletin by Max Pollak
Winter No. 3, Miletin
Max Pollak
Title
Winter No. 3, Miletin
Artist
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Year
1907
Technique
drypoint, printed chine colle
Image Size
3 15/16 x 5 13/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated; presumed small
Annotations
pencil titled and dated along lower center sheet edge; Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; stamped on verso, "Made in Austria"
Reference
Paper
thin white wove collaged to heavy buff wove support sheet
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
22616
Price
$400.00
Description
This image is one of a series of landscape prints Pollak did depicting winter in the Czech Republic. To print this composition he collaged a sheet of thin white laid paper that would capture the delicate drypoint lines to a support sheet of cream wove that allowed the print to be handled.
The composition is of a village in the depth of winter, the foreground is a snowy landscape with a house that is barely visible. At the top of the image is the village with its belltower and church spires and snow-bound houses, set against a gray, winter sky.
Miletin is a town in Ji?ín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic, founded in the 12th century. It has about 900 inhabitants.