Print of the Day!! Tues, June 11, 2019; Max Pollak (1886-1970); "San Francisco: Triptych View from Telegraph Hill"; color intaglio; 1930; 6/120.

Print of the Day!! Tuesday, June 11, 2019, is by Czech-born American printmaker Max Pollak (1886-1970). Summer Vacation around the U.S. - San Francisco, California.

"San Francisco: Triptych View from Telegraph Hill: The Harbor / Business Center / Nob Hill" is a color intaglio triptych, etchings and aquatints, done in 1930.  The platemarks for the individual panels measure: 11 x 8-3/8 - 11 x 8-3/8 and 11 x 8-1/2" and each is pencil signed, titled and editioned "6/120" (not completed) by the artist in the lower margin. The works are printed by the artist on a fine, ivory laid paper that measures 13-1/2 x 10-1/8". There is a red FPC (Friedl Pollak Collection) stamp in the lower left margin of each, a pencil annotation by the artist with the full title and the date of 1930, and the image's position in the triptych. This triptych was No. 116 in the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949.

This scarce color triptych is available from the gallery for $1,500.00.

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Max Pollak did this triptych birds-eye overview of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill in 1930, before either the Oakland/San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridges or Coit Tower were built in the mid 1930s.

The left panel, "The Harbor" is of the San Francisco Bay harbor. Looking past the rooftops of the shacks built on the side of Telegraph Hill the viewer can see the Ferry Building and the piers and wharves along the waterfront as ships arrive through the Golden Gate from the Pacific. To the left of the Ferry Building is a sign advertising the Wellman grocery and coffee company, established in San Francisco in 1849 during the Gold Rush.

The central panel titled "Business Center" looks to the east to downtown San Francisco. The new "skyscrapers" of the financial center are visible in the distance, viewed between 2 Eucalyptus trees on Telegraph Hill.

The right panel is titled "Nob Hill" and is a foggy view of the neighborhood with the Mark Hopkins Hotel visible at the top of the hill. The pre-bridge East Bay is indicated by the hills rising over the bay.

As the Depression wore on and San Francisco built, partly in order to help with job crreation, the landscape changed dramatically. Three years later, in 1933, after this image was created, Coit Tower was built during the Great Depression. The Golden Gate Bridge was also constructed, beginning in 1933 and opening in 1937, linking Northern California to San Francisco, all which became immediate San Francisco landmarks.

The Annex Galleries has acquired a large selection of Max Pollak's prints including his early work from Europe and the Holy Land, the United States and Latin America as well as many of his large portraits of dancers and noted personages. We have been adding these to the website with no prices as we catalog them and have added them to our Exhibitions section of the website at: https://www.annexgalleries.com/exhibitions/view/20

I will be featuring Pollak's intaglios one day each week. Many of these exist in very few impressions, many of his works were destroyed by the Nazis in the late 1930s. These works are all for sale.

To purchase this work, see other works, or read a biography for Max Pollak use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/1894/Pollak/Max

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