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Emil Orlik: Minette Tänzerin - The Dancer Minette

Minette Tänzerin  - The Dancer Minette
drypoint with soft ground etching, 1911
Plate/Image Size: 12.1 x 9.8 cm - (4¾ x 3¾ inches)
Sheet Size: 22.5 x 16.2 cm - (8¾ x 6½ inches)
signed and dated in pencil titled in the margin in another hand

a beautiful impression of this very RARE etching (the first example we have seen); it is not illustrated in any of the books on Orlik's works
on cream laid paper
in very good condition apart from a little very pale foxing in the top right corner