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[Portrait (Profile) of a Man with Spectacles]
Catalogue Entry # #15
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Date: c. 1922-24*
Medium: Etching**
Edition: CU (Currently Unknown)
Dimensions: 4 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.
Printer: CU***
Typical pencil annotations on impressions from the edition: CU****
Public collections holding this print: CU
Topic galleries for this print:
1. Portraits
2. Prints in media other than lithography
*Date: The dating of this etching is no more than a speculation based on several factors: 1) Fiene was more likely to have done etchings earlier in his career. One reference to an unobserved etching gives a date of 1922. Only seven intaglios have been observed and none with a date later than 1932. 2) He studied etching and lithography at the Art Students League (taught at the time by Joseph Pennell and Eugene Fitsch) in 1923. 3) The catalogue of his exhibition at the New Gallery, New York City, in 1924, includes a portfolio of eleven unspecified etchings but no prints in any other medium. Presumably this is one of them.
**Medium: Only nine Fiene prints in a medium other than lithography, all of which are intaglios -- etchings, aquatints and drypoints -- currently have full entries in the catalogue (Click here to view them.). Although others exist, information about them is currently incomplete.
***Printer: Fiene printed some of his early etchings himself, indicating this by writing "Imp" (Impressit, Latin for he/she printed it) after his signature. This may be the case here.
****Annotations: The only observed impression has no annotations whatsoever..