46. John Marin
(1870-1953)

Market Place, Frauen Kirche, Nuremberg

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Marin, Market Place

Market Place, Frauen Kirche, Nuremberg

Etching, 1910, 200 x 249 mm., Zigrosser 101 ii/ii, edition about 10. Far more than the preceding, this etching seems to show the reincarnation and development of Whistler's Venetian style, albeit the subject here is not Venetian at all but German. But the image expands outwards from the central subject, getting sketchier as it goes and the just-outlined umbrellas at the bottom would have delighted the master. Still, there is a certain evolution of the style here and one should know that this plate is just one year before Marin's first etching of the Brooklyn Bridge, the subject that would bring him fully into Modernism. A fine impression in black with subtly modulated plate tone on japan paper with full margins, titled and signed in pencil. The plate is exceedingly rare; only about 10 impressions are known to exist.