La Femme au Perroquet, 1898
Price range: $295.00 through $540.00
A young woman with cropped hair looks up at a green parrot and holds a red fruit just out of its reach. Drawn by a Munich horse painter and printed in Paris in 1898, it went out to subscribers of a monthly portfolio of new prints.
Tall, flat and graphic, with a half-smile that gives nothing away, it has the cheek of a magazine cover and the poise of a portrait. It holds its own wherever people pass, and catches them every time.
The print
Printed by theprintspace, the East London fine-art lab trusted by artists, galleries and museums. Each print is made to order on Hahnemühle German Etching, a heavyweight 310gsm mould-made paper with a slightly warm white tone and a soft, mottled texture, using archival pigment inks made to last for generations.
German Etching suits this print especially well. Its warm white and gentle texture recall the paper of the original 1898 lithograph, and let the flat greens, mustard yellow and inky browns sit softly, just as they do on the real sheet.
Sizes available:
40×60cm, 16×24″, fine art print, open edition
70×100cm, 28×39″, fine art print, open edition
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The story
L’Estampe moderne was a Paris print subscription that ran monthly from May 1897 to April 1899. Each issue held four new colour lithographs, wrapped in a cover by Alphonse Mucha and printed by the Imprimerie Champenois, for 3 francs 50. Alongside French artists such as Steinlen and Fantin-Latour, it brought in names from abroad, among them Edward Burne-Jones and this young painter from Munich. La Femme au Perroquet appeared in issue 19, in November 1898.
Angelo Jank (1868–1940) was the son of Christian Jank, the stage painter whose drawings for King Ludwig II became the starting point for Neuschwanstein. Angelo trained at the Munich Academy, drew for the Munich magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus, and in 1922 became the Academy’s Professor of Animal Painting, best known for his horses and riders. Impressions of this print are held by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas.
