Rarance (two boys with produce)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1917  

graphite and pastel drawing 

9 1/8 x 11" image size 

pencil, lower right 

 

pencil titled and dated "21.9.1917" lower right; on mat: "Market scene, Rarance, Yugoslavia" 

 

toothy cream wove 

 

 

23782 

Price On Request 

Rarance is how Max Pollak spelled Rarancze, the German spelling of Ridviski, or Rarancza, a village in current-day Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. Here, he places it as part of Yugoslavia. It was the site of an historical battle between Hungary and Russia in 1916 and another between the Polish Legionnaires and Austria-Hungary in 1918. It stands to reason that Pollak, who was deployed as a war artist with the Austrian Army at this time, was stationed there during these trials. This was among the many images he drew of local people in the regions he traveled to.