Dog and Cat series: Mary

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching 

4 5/8 x 5 1/16" 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 

 

thick antique-white wove 

 

 

24032 

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 French bulldog in a ruffled collar sits facing the viewer.