Artist: Isac Friedlander (Latvian/American, 1890-1968)
Title: Sonnet 53
Year: 1932
Medium: wood engraving
Image Size: 7.3 X 5.3 inches
Sheet Size: 9.8 X 7.2 inches
Description: Signed in pencil and annotated with title, printed on pale cream wove paper, tipped to heavy grey paper. From the suite of wood engravings for Shakespeare Sonnets, published 1932. Unframed.
Note: The Latvian-born Isac Friedlander had a troubled adolescence under the repressive Russian regime. Arrested for what were seen as anti-czarist political activities, he served four years' imprisonment for suspicion of murder, but the three classmates arrested with him were executed. (They only had been protesting compulsory uniforms and weekend curfews.) After his release, Friedlander traveled to Italy, where he had his only formal art training at the Academy in Rome. In the 1930s, with the help of his cousin Joseph Hirshhorn, Friedlander emigrated to Canada, where he met and married his second wife, Gilda Barondess. They soon relocated to New York, where Friedlander became a respected and successful artist and print maker, working primarily in etching and woodcut. (source: Georgetown U.)
Condition: Fine
Shipping: $20 to US address