Dog and Cat series: Mah Jongg

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching 

4 3/8 x 3 1/4" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

not stated; presumed fewer than 10 impressions 

titled in the plate, upper center; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner 

 

cream Gladbach laid with trumpeting mermaid watermark 

 

 

24025 

$300.00 

Max Pollak produced a series of small portraits of pet cats and dogs, likely belonging to close friends and often sporting fashionable accoutrements. These serve as small windows into the humorous side of a serious artist. Here, a Japanese Chin stands alone and expectant, perhaps waiting for his owner to arrive.