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Artworks
Albert Bloch 1882-1961
Duell (Duel), 1913Drypoint8 3/16 x 10 3/8 inches, 20.8 x 26.4 cm (image)
14 3/4 x 22 inches, 37.5 x 55.9 cm (sheet)Edition of 20Signed with the artist's initials and dated in plate at lower left: AB / 1913; inscribed in plate at lower center: DUELL; inscribed in margin at lower left: 17/20; signed in margin at lower right: Albert BlochAlbert Bloch employed dry point in a group of technically accomplished works produced during a very limited period from 1909-1915 while living in Munich. The print Duell presents the dramatic...Albert Bloch employed dry point in a group of technically accomplished works produced during a very limited period from 1909-1915 while living in Munich. The print Duell presents the dramatic subject he addressed in his masterwork of the same title–the major oil painting that was accepted to the important “Sonderbund” exhibition in Cologne (1912, Art Bridges). In creating this print the following year, Bloch maintained the overall compositional layout, using similar landscape features while slightly altering the three figure groupings, and retaining the powerful moment of the contest just played out.Provenance
Anna Bloch (the artist's wife), Lawrence, Kansas; to Albert Bloch Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, 2003 until the present
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