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Plate size: 16.9 X 11.5 inches. Signed in pencil & annotated with date & title & "6/15", printed in bluish-gray ink on felt-finish, pale-cream wove paper, 4 inch margins, in a 4-ply rag mat. Mint condition. Free shipping to US address. (402893 pf-1) Note: Emigrating to the United States from his native Germany in 1927 at age two, Marx's work embodies the turbulence of those times & sees them mirrored in the disquiet of our own. One of the galleries that represent him expresses it best: "Robert E. Marx is part of a small group of important American figurative artists who comment on what it means to be human in an inhuman age. A kindred spirit with such great but often overlooked social protest artists like Leonard Baskin & Leon Golub, Marx's work speaks only to those who wish to be challenged by an artist's idea those who seek an intense & enduring dialogue with works of art." One of America's most important exponents of the north European expressionist tradition that goes back to Bosch, Grünewald, & Bruegel, Marx's work explores the futility of trying to bring universal order or give conclusive meaning to the human condition. Marx himself states: "The people I draw, paint & sculpt personify the human condition. They are also the people we see around us, every day." Marx continues his culturally-driven work today at age ninety-two. (source: Agincourt, Iowa) Robert Ernst Marx | German/American, 1925-2020, "A Curse 2", 1973, Etching With Aquatint, Pencil Signed & Dated
