Cantina, Taxco by Stefan Hirsch

Cantina, Taxco by Stefan Hirsch

Cantina, Taxco

Stefan Hirsch

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Title

Cantina, Taxco

 
Artist

Stefan Hirsch

  1899 - 1964 (biography)
Year
c. 1935  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
10 7/8 x 14" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered proof (edition around 30) 
Annotations
pencil titled, lower left 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory wove Rives BFK 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23303 
Price
$500.00 
Description

By the mid 1930s Stefan Hirsch had established his place as an American social realist, whose work had evolved from the layered, tonal style of Post-Impressionism to a more stylized, urban Abstraction informed by Cubism, Mexican modernists and contemporary Expressionism. A common thread remained between old and new: Hirch’s penchant for mood. Whether working in color or black and white, cityscape or figurative, he set a familiarity within every scene with his use of light and shadow.

The intimacy of a cantina in 1930s Taxco is simply but effectively portrayed in Hirsch’s image of an end-of-the-day gathering. The night is warm enough for patrons to stand outside, a flood of the light illuminating their figures, while the bright interior draws the viewer inside. Hirsch does away with minute detail to focus on architectural elements and the universal camaraderie of late night society.

 
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