Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)[no title] c.1937-50

P07970 [from] Complete set of untitled etchings c.1942–1951 [P07948-P07980; complete]

Thirty-three etchings and drypoints in range 2 3/4 × 4–12 1/4 × 9 1/8 (64 × 102–324 × 248) on thin ivory Japan paper approximately 15 × 10 1/4 (381 × 267), printed and published posthumously by the artist's widow (edition size and printer not known)
Not inscribed
Purchased from Reiss Cohen Inc., New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
Lit: Will Grohmann, ‘Das Graphische Werk von Wols’, Quadrum, 6, 1959, pp.95–118 (repr. with the exception of no.XXXV)

According to Grohmann, at the time of Wols's death he left behind a number of copper plates which he had been working on since c.1942. He states that the exact number of these plates cannot be established since a number were ruined or lost. In 1954 Wols's widow commissioned the printing of thirty-five plates in an edition of 6. At the time of Grohmann's article three of these were in private collections and two belonged to the widow and to the artist's brother. They were printed on ivory coloured Velin Arches and stamped with the stamp of the estate. In addition one set was made which did not bear the stamp of the estate and was given to a former schoolfriend of the artist… (read more)