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Dancers: Thea v. Ujj by Max Pollak
Dancers: Thea v. Ujj
Max Pollak
Title
Dancers: Thea v. Ujj
Artist
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Year
c. 1925
Technique
color aquatint with etching
Image Size
16 5/8 x 11 11/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
unnumbered; likely fewer than 20 impressions
Annotations
pencil titled in lower left; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; blue stamed "Made in Austria" on verso
Reference
Paper
ivory tissue laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
23441
Price
$450.00
Description
While in Vienna Max Pollak became involved in the avant-garde dance scene. He did a series of intaglio portraits of dancers, usually costumed and posed, from one of their noted performances. He is sometimes credited with being "the first etcher to turn his attention to the dance as a subject."
There is very little information to be found on the dancer Thea von Ujj, only that she was portrayed several times in the works of various artists in the 1920s.