Death of the Matador, by Gabor Peterdi, Amer., (1915-1991) New Acquisition 4-15/16 x 6-15/16

4-15/16 x 6-15/16

James Weeks

two pin holes well below pencil signature with ruled pencil line where an exhibition label or business card was likely pinned

on thin cream laid J WHATMAN watermarked paper

This lithograph shows Richards near photographic precision in rendering complex overlapping forms and extraordinary detail

Death of the Matador, by Gabor Peterdi, Amer., (1915-1991) New Acquisition 4-15/16 x 6-15/16Engraving, 1939, Ed. probably 57 plus AP's, J. 18, not stated, 9 5 16 x 11 11 16, one of a portfolio of 7 engravings on copper titled The Black Bull, published by Jeanne Bucher Editions, Paris, 1939, signed, and numbered 54 57 in pencil, with a partially erased dedication to Norman Gorbaty, his student at Yale, on cream laid paper.