Description: Aline Fruhauf "Self Portrait" Lithograph 1931 Pencil Signed Numbered 24/25.Image size: 7 1/4 x 11 inches; Paper size: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Matt size 16 x 20 inches. Known for her biting caricatures, Aline Fruhauf was equally incisive when she depicted herself. This print was created at the beginning of her career in New York City in the 1930s, when she was drawing celebrities from the worlds of theater, art, music, and other forms of entertainment. The image from 1931 is only slightly exaggerated and depicts Fruhauf seated in front of her own caricature of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which hangs on the back wall. It presents a sympathetic image of an artist at home. Fruhauf wrote about the process, noting that her nose was prominent and bulbous at the end, that she made her mouth even smaller than it was, and that she created for herself an impossibly long neck. The result, an artist poised at her drawing board, perusing her own image, is as exaggerated and unruly as her published caricatures of the famous faces of the day. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Erwin Vollmer Aline Fruhauf began her professional career in 1926 with thesale of a caricature to the New York World. She produced anextraordinary volume of work before her death in 1978. Foryears her drawings of celebrities appeared regularly in theNew York dailies, as well as in such periodicals as MusicalAmerica, Theatre Arts, Dance Observer, Vogue, Vanity Fair, andEsquire.
Price: 750 USD
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina
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Artist: Aline Fruhauf
Size: Medium
Material: Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: Washington, DC
Subject: Figures
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1931
Theme: Art
Style: Contemporary Art
Features: Numbered
Production Technique: Lithography
Culture: Americano
Time Period Produced: 1990-1999
