Dancers: Herma Prach

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching & color aquatint 

15 3/4 x 19 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

36/50 (likely fewer than 50 impressions printed) 

pencil titled and editioned; bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet corner 

Mills College Art Museum accession number 1999.13.1 

ivory simile vellum paper 

published 

artist 

23991 

$300.00 

Little information is found on the dancer Herma Prach, though photos abound. She was a student of Isadora Duncan and is mentioned in Duncan's posthumously published book Memoirs (Zurich/Leipzig/Vienna Amalthea, 1928).