Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe - set of 30 woodengravings by Fritz Eichenberg

Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe - set of 30 woodengravings by Fritz Eichenberg

Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe - set of 30 woodengravings

Fritz Eichenberg

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Title

Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe - set of 30 woodengravings

 
Artist
Year
1944  
Technique
woodengraving 
Image Size
7 1/4 x 4 3/4" image sizes 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered artist's proofs for book 
Annotations
annotated "E.A. Poe" in lower left 
Reference
Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, Eichenberg 195-228 
Paper
fine, ivory Japanese vellum 
State
proofs 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
FE149 
Price
$6,500.00 
Description
Executed for the wartime volume issued by Random House in 1944, this is one of several novels Eichenberg illustrated. He was drawn to the works of authors whose works meditated on the drama of the human condition: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, the Brontes, Grimmelhausen, Poe, etc. Here, his signature exaggeration of features, made stark with the use of heavy contrast, compliments Poe's style. Each finely detailed illustration, within a relatively small format, carries its own impact. Between four and ten unnumbered proofs were pulled for each woodengraving. 
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