51. William Auerbach-Levy
(1889-1964)
Cabby

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Auerbach-Levy: Cabby

Cabby

Drypoint, 1919, 303 x 250 mm. Fine impression with rich burr on tan simili-japon paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Auerbach-Levy (the hyphen is still debated) was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia and came to America at the age of five with his parents. His artistic training was in New York and Paris. He painted, but is not much known for it. He etched, and was quite well known for it, though perhaps less so today than fifty years ago (like many etchers). But he was famous as a caricaturist, for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair among others, made several of his drawings into striking color woodcuts (with the aid of Harry de Maine) and was the author of several books on caricature. This, however, is one of his “serious” prints. Apart from some strikingly lovely views of France, most of his etchings and drypoints are of faces from the crowd, often Jewish faces, but just as often not. Sympathy and humanity permeate them.

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