Madonna and Child by Ilonka Karasz

Madonna and Child by Ilonka Karasz

Madonna and Child

Ilonka Karasz

Title

Madonna and Child

 
Artist

Ilonka Karasz

  1896 - 1981 (biography)
Year
c. 1925  
Technique
woodcut 
Image Size
9 1/8 x 8 1/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
numbered 24 from around 33 impressions 
Annotations
numbered 24 from a total edition of around 33 
Reference
 
Paper
fibrous, oatmeal laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
QUHI106 
Price
SOLD
Description

The multi-talented artist Ilonka Karasz was born in Budapest in 1896 and attended the Wiener Werkstatte-inspired Hungarian Royal Academy of Art and Crafts as a teen with her sister, noted designer Mariska Karasz.

Karasz counted among her accomplishments an amazing 186 covers for the New Yorker, beginning in inaugural year with the sixth cover in April of 1925 and continuing into the 1970s. A designer, teacher, author, and craftswoman she was also an accomplished printmaker and painter.

This woodcut, "Madonna and Child", was done in an unstated small edition around 1920. Despite her avant-garde ways she always had a deep spiritual side which sometimes was reflected in her work. This image may have been done to illustrate a publication.