JOHNNY FRIEDLAENDER [Gotthard]
Pless, Silesia 1912 - 1992

Homeros - The Swimmer - 1953
Original Hand Signed Etching

Title : Homeros - The Swimmer.

Technique : Original Etching on old laid "Marais"paper.

Paper size : 24 X 16.5 cm / 9.5 X 6.5 in

Additional Information : This original etching is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist att he lower right margin.
It was printed in 1953 in the "Homeros: Nausikaa - Episoden".
The edition was of only 125 impressions plus a few artist proofs that this is one of them.
This early and rare etching represents the early part of Friedlaender career, before his compositios became more abstract. It's a fine example of the period just before the abstraction but still not a complete figurative composition.

Literature :Johnny Friedlaender: Radierungen 1930-1972, by Rolf Schmucking, Verlag Galerie Schmucking Braunschweig 1973.
Reference: Schmucking no. 112.

Condition : Excellent condition. Tape remains on the reverse.