38. Max Oppenheimer
(1885-1954)
The Quartet

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Oppenheimer, The Quartet

The Quartet

Color lithograph, ca. 1920, 660 x 645 mm., Pabst L-15. This huge color lithograph presents an almost abstract organization of only the hands, the instruments, the bows and the part books of the Rosé Quartet. The subject is realistically drawn in life size, but arranged without regard for reality, in a three-dimensional pattern. Colored in tones of black, blue, brown and flesh, it is a strikingly effective image. Oppenheimer (who generally signed himself MOPP) made two etchings of the Rosé Quartet, dated 1924 and 1932, as well as etching and painting many other musical subjects. A very fine impression on thick wove paper with unequal margins as published; with flattened crease marks, sometimes in the image, where the print was folded for framing. Pabst mentions that the edition was unsigned but that a few signed proofs exist. The print is reproduced in color on the cover of Pabst’s catalog of Oppenheimer’s graphic work.