Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

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MARGUERITE ZORACH

Man and Child

Woodcut, 1917. 420x190 mm; 16

inches, wide margins. Signed and dated in pencil,

lower right. A good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.

Marguerite Thomas Zorach (1887-1968) was an American Fauvist painter and early

exponent of modernism in America, born in California into a well-to-do family. She

exhibited an interest in art at an early age, and studied at Stanford University before traveling

to Paris with her aunt, where she was introduced to Gertrude Stein and exposed to the

work of Henri Matisse.There she discovered her affinity for the color palette of the Fauves.

Marguerite studied for a period of time at the conservative Académie de la Grande

Chaumière before attending the progressive art school La Palette, where she met her future

husband William. Their marriage, in 1912, began a strong companionship in which the

two artists consistently inspired, influenced and shaped each other’s artistic lives.

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