Lot no. 332
Classical Modernism
Max Liebermann
2 self-portraits. Self-portrait, drawing. 1921 Drypoint on JW Zanders laid paper (wt.) Final version. Self-portrait. 1917. woodcut on China. 25.5 x 18.6 cm (plate margin), (40 x 30 cm) and 14.4 x 13.2 (depiction), 17.1 x 14.2 cm (plate margin), (28 x 20 cm) resp. Each signed. - Some minor handling marks in the margins. Very and exceptionally good, respectively. Excellent, extremely sharp impressions with exceptionally strong blacks and wide margins.
Schiefler 330 IV c, w. ill. p. 271 and XVI, w. ill. p. 281 - Achenbach VII-XXIV - One of 100 copies on Zanders laid paper for Paul Cassirer's publication "Max Liebermanns Handzeichnungen", published 1922 - One of 25 signed copies on China of a woodcut (own wood engraving) by Reinhold Hoberg already made in 1917 after a design by Max Liebermann drawn on the stock. Published as the first sheet of 12 in the special portfolio of a publication published by Willy Kurth, Berlin, on the occasion of the artist's 75th birthday with the title "Dreissig Holzschnittzeichnungen".
2 self-portraits. Dry-point etching on JW Zanders laid paper and wood engraving on china paper. Both Signed. - Occasionally with barely noticeable traces of handling in the margins. Extremely fine and very good. Superb, sharp clear and deep black impressions with rich constasts, wide margins. - One of 100 copies on Zanders laid paper for Paul Cassirer's publication 'Max Liebermanns Handzeichnungen', published in 1922. - One of 25 copies on China of a wood-cut (i.e. a wood-engraving) made in 1917 by Reinhold Hoberg after a design by Max Liebermann drawn on the wood block. Published as the first of 12 plates in the de luxe map of a publication published by Willy Kurth, Berlin, on the occasion of the artist's 75th birthday, titled 'Dreissig Holzschnittzeichnungen'.
700
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