Dog and Cat series: Fitzi

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching with hand applied color 

3 7/16 x 3 13/16" 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 

 

ivory laid 

 

 

24021 

$175.00 

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 Japanese Chin rests on an overstuffed green pillow wearing an oversized tangerine bow.