New York, Brooklyn Bridge

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1929  

color etching & aquatint 

10 1/8 x 18 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

2/150; possibly only 50 impressiosn printed according to notation on print 

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso: Made in Austria; inscribed in pencil at lower sheet edge: "printed a 50"; copyright Corp. Rud. Lesch NY in lower right image 

 

ivory similis vellum wove 

published 

Rudolph Lesch, New York 

PAKU111 

SOLD

This is a classic view of Manhattan across the East River and through the steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. Pollak emphasized the important industry of the East River by featuring different modes of transportation on the river and the played upon the importance of the Brooklyn Bridge by making it span the width of his image.