Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe - set of 30 woodengravings

 

Fritz Eichenberg

  1901 - 1990 (biography)

1944  

woodengraving 

7 1/4 x 4 3/4" image sizes 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered artist's proofs for book 

annotated "E.A. Poe" in lower left 

Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, Eichenberg 195-228 

fine, ivory Japanese vellum 

proofs 

artist 

FE149 

$6,500.00 

Executed for the wartime volume issued by Random House in 1944, this is one of several novels Eichenberg illustrated. He was drawn to the works of authors whose works meditated on the drama of the human condition: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, the Brontes, Grimmelhausen, Poe, etc. Here, his signature exaggeration of features, made stark with the use of heavy contrast, compliments Poe's style. Each finely detailed illustration, within a relatively small format, carries its own impact. Between four and ten unnumbered proofs were pulled for each woodengraving.