$100
Estimate: $200 - $300
Auction: April 6, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
Circa 1930, pencil signed and titled (from the edition of unknown size), with wide margins. Drypoint with hand-coloring on tissue-thin Japan.
image: 9 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (23.5 x 11.7cm)
sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (27.3 x 20.6cm)
Provenance: Pia Gallo Fine Old Master and Modern Prints, New York, New York.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 2005).
note:
Bertha Jacques was a largely self-taught printmaker who began etching on copper using her husband's surgical tools. She created over 400 etchings and drypoints, with botanicals as a favorite subject. She was a founder of the Chicago Society of Etchers, and one of the first artists to experiment with cynotypes again using botanicals as her subject.