Sumpi (and a butterfly)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

color etching 

4 5/8 x 4 3/16" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

not stated; presumed fewer than 10 impressions 

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

 

cream laid 

 

 

24030 

$150.00 

Max Pollak frequently created portraits of dogs and cats belonging to friends, sometimes sporting bows or posed in playful ways. These serve as small windows into the humorous side of a serious artist. Here, a small Dachshund in the lower left of the plate watches a butterfly in flight in the upper right.