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four drawings of a street scene with a church and a church steeplean image of a drawing of a house in the snowa black and white drawing of a horse in the snowtwo old black and white photos of a building and a clock towera black and white drawing of a man laying on the grounda drawing of a clock tower in a citya black and white drawing of a building with a clock tower
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Max Pollak (Prague 1886 – 1950 New York) Set of 5 etchings 1| Cemetery etching on paper, 20 x 13.5 cm signed Max Pollak 2| Znaimer Gäßschen etching on paper, 15 x 6 cm signed Max Pollak, inscribed ‘Znaimer Gäßschen’ 3| Winter landscape in Bohemia etching on paper, 11.5 x 13.6 cm signed Max Pollak, inscribed ‘Winter landscape in Bohemia’ 4| Prague I etching on paper 10.5 x 7 cm signed Max Pollak, inscribed ‘Prague’ 5| Prague II etching on paper 14.4 x 11 cm signed Max Pollak ESTIMATE €150 – €300 STARTING PRICE €150 Max Pollak was a Czech-Austrian-American graphic artist, painter and etcher associated with the Viennese Modernist movement, specialising in colour etchings and portraits. Born on 27 February 1886 in Prague, he grew up in Vienna, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1902 under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer, travelled to Italy, France and Holland in 1912, served as a war artist for the Austrian army from 1914 to 1918, married Friederike Knedel in 1924, emigrated to the USA in 1927, created illustrations for Theodore Dreiser’s *My City* in 1929, moved to San Francisco in 1938, and won prizes from the Chicago Society of Etchers (1942) and the California Society of Etchers (1942–1945). Pollak produced coloured aquatint etchings of New York, San Francisco (Golden Gate Bridge), Sausalito, Mexico and Guatemala, as well as portraits (including Sigmund Freud in 1914) characterised by an Impressionist atmosphere, subtle grey tones and dynamic composition, influenced by the Viennese printmaking tradition and American Urban Realism; over 500 prints in drypoint, aquatint and soft ground. Related artists and terms: Ferdinand Schmutzer, William Unger, Sigmund Freud, Vienna School of Printmaking, colour etchings USA, exiled artists New York, San Francisco printmaking, views of the Golden Gate, Theodore Dreiser, California Society of Etchers PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, sales tax and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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