Sails
Catalogue
- Year
- 1932
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 50 × 66.2 cm (19 11/16 × 26 1/8 in.); Sheet: 56 × 76.5 cm (22 1/16 × 30 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Johnny Friedlaender
Artist
Printmaking
Johnny Friedlaender was a German-born printmaker and painter whose career spanned the postwar era. Working primarily in etching, aquatint, and lithography, he developed a geometric abstract language rooted in color relationships and formal composition. His prints and paintings combined precision with a lyrical sensibility, moving between figuration and abstraction across decades of sustained practice.
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Bird
1948 · Etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on ivory wove paper
Fish
1948 · Etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on white wove paper
Fish and Net
1948 · Etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on white wove paper
Chicken Falling out of Egg
1948 · Etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on ivory wove paper
Poisson III: La Fleur Marine
1932 · Color etching on cream tone paper
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- Johnny Friedlaender
- Year
- 1932
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 50 × 66.2 cm (19 11/16 × 26 1/8 in.); Sheet: 56 × 76.5 cm (22 1/16 × 30 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1932-119255
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified