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Franz Gertsch (b. 1930)
Lot 182 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Franz Gertsch (b. 1930)

Silvia

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 64,900

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Franz Gertsch (b. 1930)
Silvia
signed and numbered '1/21 Franz Gertsch' (on the reverse)
woodcut on paper
image: 75 3/8 x 69 ½in. (191.5 x 176.5cm.)
sheet: 96 1/8 x 85 ¾in. (244 x 217.7cm.)

Executed in 2001-2002, this work is number one from a series of thirty unique versions

Gallery Haas & Fuchs, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Specialist note

‘Through his works Franz Gertsch introduces us to a world that is very close to his own, yet demystifying it. We see the faces of beautiful young women (for him the essence of humankind is represented in its purest form in the face of a young woman.)’
(E. Költzsch, 'Franz Gertsch, the Milkman and Mrs Blum, in Franz Gertsch - Holzchnitte, exh.cat., Galerie Haas, Zurich, 2011, p. 70)