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Lot 253
Theodor Eduard Scharf (1899-1987) A Folio containing unframed etchings, a full set of the 'Night in the City' series and a near set (17/20) titles include Saturday Evening; Prize Fight; Dusk; Promenade; Railway Station; Restaurant; Cinema; Music Lovers; Theatre; all signed, and inscribed, some numbered, varying plate sizes, a number c,12 x 17cm; and smaller; and one other unframed etching by the artist titled 'Rainy Day'; thirty eight (38 total )Theo Scharf was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1899, the son of a concert pianist. From an early age he was encouraged to become an artist.In 1914 he travelled with his mother to Munich where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts. After the end of The Great War, in the following years Scharf eked out a precarious existence living in Schwabing, the city's lively artistic and intellectual quarter. It was at this time that he produced some of his most interesting work, including his 'Night in the City' series of prints, which depicted City Llfe in the early 1920s. The prints are etchings on paper, unframed within a folio. They have full sheets and margins, with pencil signatures and hand-written titles and numbers. They are in generally good condition, with visible plate marks and no losses or major evidence for deterioration to the plates. There is some general ageing/yellowing to the sheets, including some around the edges from handling. A few sheets have creasing to the edges, two examples have some minor faint foxing which does not extend into the plates. One example of the Street Girl has a tear to the left edge, one has a stain to the upper-right margin. some of the plates have some cockling including Closing time, restaurant 1 x1, restaurant 2 x1, Cabaret x1, after the concert x 1, restaurant III x 1Titles of the prints are as follows: no 1 - Dusk (1), no 2 - Saturday Evening (2), no 3- Promenade (2), no 4 - Closing Time (1), no 5 - Railway station (2), no 6 - Restaurant 1 (2), no 7 Restaurant 2 (2), no 8 - Cinema (2), no 9 - Music lovers (2), no 10 (1), no 11 Prize Fight (2), no 12 - Theatre (2), no 13 - Burglars (2), no 14 - Cabaret (2), no 15 - After the Concert (2), no 16 - Restaurant III (2), no 17 - Street Girl (2), No 18 - Lovers (2), No 19 - Revellers (2), No 20 - Dawn (2). Plus Rainy Day (1) (total 38)
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