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Emil Orlik: Hodler malend im Freien - Hodler Painting in the Open Air

Hodler malend im Freien - Hodler Painting in the Open Air
etching, 1911
Catalogue Reference: Glöckner 48:210
Plate/Image Size: 26.4 x 20.8 cm - (10½ x 8¼ inches)
Sheet Size: 32.8 x 24.9 cm - (13 x 9¾ inches)
signed and dated in pencil; inscribed "Chexbres" and dated in the plate

a delightfully captured image of a fellow artist painting directly from nature in the Swiss countryside
on cream wove paper in good condition apart from a couple of pale foxing marks

Ferdinand Hodler: Swiss Jugendstil painter (1853-1918), very famous in his day