The Execution - from "The Idiot", by Dostoevsky

 

Fritz Eichenberg

  1901 - 1990 (biography)

1956  

woodengraving 

7 15/16 x 5" image 

pencil, lower right 

proof 

inscribed in pencil in lower left: The Idiot 

Gene Baro, catalogue no. 61, illustrated page 61 

ivory wove Basingwerk Parchment 

proof outside of published edition 

portfolio published by Heritage Club 

FE101 

$250.00 

According to Gene Baro: For this project, Eichenberg produced twenty-nine wood engravings from boxwood plus nine chapter headings. Eichenberg has some doubts about his success with these illustrations. This is perhaps because he was less successful in identifying himself with the tragic Prince Myshkin. “I felt I could have done better,” the artist said to the present writer. Nevertheless, the artist’s inner doubts are not reflected in the powerful effects achieved in these illustrations.