Eva with President Masaryk, chine-collé variation

Hanka, Ladislav
American
Czech
Contemporary
Chine-collé
Etching

$200.00

Photo-etching, made by Ladislav Hanka, of

1938 stamp engraved by Bohumil Heinz, after

1928 photo by Jano Šrámek, of

3-year-old Eva Neugebauerová with Czechoslovak President Tomáš Masaryk

Pencil signed many years later by that same Eva, whose married name is Hanková

Eva Hanková-Neugebauerová is the mother of Ladislav Hanka

Image: 2 ⅝” x 3 ⅜”

Chine-collé area: approx. 3 ½” x 4” (Chine-collé means printing on a smaller, lighter sheet,  and at same time adhering it to a larger, heavier sheet)

Sheet: 10 ¼” x 11”

Condition: Very good, direct from artist’s studio

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Ladislav Hanka was born in 1952 to parents who emigrated to the US from Stalinist Czechoslovakia. In his own words:

I have academic credentials, but I backed away from that world long ago: There is an MS in zoology; MFA in printmaking and some years of study in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. I apprenticed with an engraver of stamps and currency in Prague and might have been a counterfeiter, but for the dreariness of spending one’s days making money.

He is a printmaker, draftsman and bookmaker who portrays the natural world with intimate knowledge and rare authority.

Please visit this remarkable artist’s vast website: ladislavhanka.com

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