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HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859 - 1937)
Raising of Lazarus
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Etching on cream laid paper, circa 1910. 178x127 mm; 7x5 inches, 1 inch (full ?) margins.
This richly inked print, with dark edges and hand-wiping, is a proof of an extremely scarce print.
We have found only one other impression in a public or private collection. There is a signed
impression in the collection of Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation, San Antonio, which was
exhibited in
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - see
plate 68, pg. 236.
With a hand-written note in ink by the owner that it was authenticated by Jesse O. Tanner, the
artist’s son, on the frame back.
Tanner created this print about a dozen years after his famous painting,
The Resurrection of Lazarus
,
1896.Tanner achieved great success in Paris with the acceptance of his biblical subjects, culminating
with the state’s purchase of
The Resurrection of Lazarus
in 1897 after its inclusion in the Salon that
year, and its housing in the Musée du Luxembourg. In his essay on
The Resurrection of Lazarus
in
the
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
catalogue, Marc Simpson wrote that this etched view of the
central figures is “known in only a few impressions.” Marley p. 75.
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