Old Paris, Au Bacchus D'Or

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1925  

softground etching & color aquatint 

12 x 7 11/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

Pr. Pr. (printer's proof) 

pencil titled and editioned 

No. 23 on the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949 

ivory laid with Van Gelder Zonen watermark 

published 

artist 

23752 

$500.00 

Au Bacchus D'Or cafe was located in Paris, possibly on rue Frederic Sauton, and was attached to the front of an aging hotel when this image was created. Max and Friedl Pollak traveled throughout France in 1925, and Max paid special attention to Paris and the Pyrenees region. Here, an ordinary street corner becomes an intimate portrait of early 20th century, everyday city life. At night the streets will surely alight with revelers, but for now, the afternoon is quietly industrious, and the worn facades of the buildings watch over the street as they've done for many generations.