Dancers: Janet Reed

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1940  

graphite and color crayon preparatory drawing 

15 1/2 x 13 1/2" image size 

pencil, lower right 

 

pencil titled, lower left 

etching at the FAMSF, acquisition no. T&D1962.153 

cream laid with "L'Envoi" watermark 

 

 

24068 

SOLD

A preparatory sketch Pollak's etching and aquatint "Janet Reed: American Ballet Dancer". Janet Reed, born in 1916 in Oregon, was lead ballerina for the San Francisco Ballet and principal ballerina New York's Ballet Theater before becoming the ballet mistress of the New York City Ballet. She retired from dancing in 1964 and went on to teach until 1996, when declining health forced her into a second retirement. She died on Februaru 28, 2000, a nationally celebrated ballerina and dance educator.