New York, East Side (V): Barber Shop

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1929  

color etching & aquatint 

8 7/8 x 4 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

23 of 50  

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso "Made in Austria" 

Triton cat. 56 

ivory similis vellum wove 

published 

 

22481 

$1,200.00 

This is most likely another view of Allen Street in Lower Manhattan. The signs hint at the different ethnicities within the neighborhood. Barber poles and the signs brighten an otherwise bleak streetscape with men loitering on the stairs and the suggestion of the El overhead.