54. John Winkler
(1894-1979)

La Marchande Endormie

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Winkler, La Marchande Endormie

La Marchande Endormie

Etching, 1923, 188 x 113 mm.,Winkler 100, edition of 50 in 2 states. A very fine impression with light plate tone on laid paper with large, full margins and signed in pencil. In 1921, Winkler went to Paris, bringing with him a host of unfinished plates of San Francisco to be worked on there. He stayed for six years, at first working only on what he brought with him, but finally getting out into the streets and markets and etching what he saw. Winkler was at his best when he was most immediate. John Taylor Arms, standing on the street nearbye, saw Winkler etch this superb plate, watching his needle fly in a race against time, before the woman should awake and change her position. Nothing could be more spontaneous and immediate. That said, the viewer is asked to look once more at the very first print in this exhibit, Whistler's La Vieille aux Loques, and wonder, perhaps, if a bit of Whistler's very soul had not entered into Winkler's.

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