Mexico, Lake Patzcuaro, Fishernets by Max Pollak

Mexico, Lake Patzcuaro, Fishernets by Max Pollak

Mexico, Lake Patzcuaro, Fishernets

Max Pollak

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Title

Mexico, Lake Patzcuaro, Fishernets

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1940  
Technique
color etching & aquatint 
Image Size
12 7/8 x 7 15/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
3/75 (likely printed less than 25) 
Annotations
titled and editioned in pencil, lower left; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; titled "Mexico on lake Patzcuaro" after stamp 
Reference
 
Paper
delicate ivory simili-vellum 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22665 
Price
$400.00 
Description

Lake Patzcuaro sits alongside the town of the same name, located in the state Michoacan. It is central to the town's culture and economy, once having been the largest source for butterfly-net fishing, as shown in this image. The lake is no longer fished, however, it has become a popular destination for tourism.

Max Pollak was born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. A printmaker with a long and productive career, his intaglio subjects included genre, land and cityscapes, and portraits from throughout Europe, the Holy Land, the United States, and Latin America.

In the early 1940s, the Pollaks traveled throughout Mexico and Latin America where Max recorded the everyday life of the residents and the architecture and landscapes of the regions, often using his favorite medium, etching and aquatint, the color for which he generally applied 'a la poupée.'

 

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