Emil Ganso (1895-1941)
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Description
Artist: Emil Ganso (1895-1941)
Title: Chartres, 1929, #12/25
Medium: drypoint etching on paper
Image Size: 9 x 11
Frame Size: 16 x 20.75
Signed: signed lower right "Ganso" inscribed "Chartres" "France same as drypoint by Clifford Beal"
Estimate: $300-$500
Notes on mat: "Emil Ganso Chartres Etching and drypoint 1929 Edition 35"
Private Collection
Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he paints a variety of subjects and is most known for his beautiful nudes
Museum holdings :
Biblioteque National Paris; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Kupferstich Cabinet in Berlin; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; New York Public Library; Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Whitney Museum of American Art.
Note: one of sever early studies by Ganso for a series of Erotic illustrations produced in the early 1930's
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