Dog and Cat series: Puck

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

color etching 

4 7/16 x 5" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

not stated; presumed fewer than 10 impressions 

titled in the plate, upper right; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner 

 

fibrous cream wove 

 

 

24019 

Price On Request 

Max Pollak produced a series of small portraits of pet cats and dogs, likely belonging to close friends and often sporting fashionable accoutrements. These serve as small windows into the humorous side of a serious artist. Here, a long-haired, rust-colored dog, perhaps an Irish Setter, lounges on his pillow with a coy stare at the viewer.