Kitty Starling

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

drypoint with hand applied color 

14 1/8 x 6" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered proof; likely fewer than 30 printed 

pencil titled, lower left; Friedl Pollak collection stamp and notation in lower left corner of sheet 

 

ivory simile vellum wove paper 

published 

artist 

23011 

SOLD

Kitty Starling was a German American dancer who performed in London. Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) created at least three highly stylized posters in 1914 featuring the dancer. One poster proclaims her to be a German American eccentric dancer and another the London Darling. Max Pollak had an affinity for dancers and they seemed willing models for the artist. This is one of three drypoint portraits of Kitty Starling in our collection of works by Max Pollak.