(Cave Paintings: Altamira Bison with symbols on neck)

 

John William Winkler

  1894 - 1979 (biography)

c. 1927  

pastel 

8.5 x 12" image 

pastel initialed, lower left 

unique drawing 

 

Pl. XXII, La Caverne d'Altamira, Cartailhac/Beuil, 1906 

grey laid FJ Head paper with watermark 

 

 

JA329 

$800.00 

A depiction of one of the Altamira Cave wildebeest paintings from the Paleolithic era (ca. 15,000 BCE), found in the village of Antillana del Mar, Cantabria, Spain. Winkler created a series of several charcoal, conte crayon, pastel, graphite, and ink drawings of such paintings, as well as prehistoric carved figures.