Live Auction 553020th Century British Art
Jankel Adler (1895-1949)
Lot 73

Jankel Adler (1895-1949)

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Closed15 July 2010

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GBP 625

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Jankel Adler (1895-1949)
Figures Seated at the Table
carbon transfer drawing
14½ x 11½ in. (36.8 x 31.7 cm.)

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner's husband, 18 December 1990 and by descent.

Specialist note

Adler met Paul Klee whilst teaching in Dusseldorf in 1931. It was probably from Klee that Adler learnt the technique of carbon transfer drawing or 'offset' monotype which he later passed on to many young British artists in the 1940s, Colquhoun and MacBryde among them. The method consisted of inking a sheet of paper, laying another sheet over it, and drawing on the fresh paper which received the ink in a linear manner.