(Kneeling man in sunlight with pen and paper)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1915  

monotype with aquatint, painted ink, and graphite 

6 3/8 x 5 1/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

preparatory proof 

stamped "Made in Germany" on the verso 

 

antique-white Van Gelder Zonen laid 

 

 

24520 

SOLD

It appears that this was a preparatory proof for an edition that wasn't realized. It includes aquatint, ink washes, and a candelabra that's been drawn in pencil on the wall to the right, as if Pollak was reworking out his vision on the paper. The image itself isn't entirely clear; it appears to be a figure, perhaps a monk, kneeling in a shaft of light with a pen and a piece of paper.