Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

of an innocent European woman in a fantastical exotic land. She is a survivor of a shipwreck, and is then subsequently spared from massacre by the Ona tribe, who kill the rest of the survivors. The Ona tribe raises her as one of their own. She f lees when Yali, a warrior in the tribe, attempts to abduct her, living happily alone in nature until she is recaptured and forced to marry Yali. Though the story is set in South America, Pechstein’s drawings are based on his experience in the South Pacific. Both the text and the illustrations emphasize the woman’s snow-white purity and depict the tribespeople as animalistic, hypersexual and uncivilized, typical of the European view of foreign lands in the 1920s. Krüger 136-144. [5,000/8,000]