František Tavík Šimon (1877-1942)

PORTRAIT OF OTTO GUTFREUND

1909
Woodcut on brown paper, 15.2 × 15.3 cm, marked and signed below the image "imp. T. F. Šimon". Accompanied by the original drawing, reversed as the model for the print, ink on paper, 17 × 15.8 cm (26.6 × 21 cm). Drawing restored, fully backed, photographs of the original condition enclosed. The sheet has three corners broken off outside the image area, within the image area only a few minor scratches and a small stain on the left side. Another copy is held in the collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, inv. no. C 13630. In the catalogue raisonné of prints by A. Novák listed under no. 115, with the note that only a few impressions were made.