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ARMIN LANDECK Village Nocturne.
Drypoint and aquatint, circa 1933. 270x214 mm; 10⅝x8⅜ inches, wide margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of approximately only 5. Signed and inscribed "Trial" in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this extremely scarce print.
This is a scene of Greenwich Village, New York, which Landeck (1905-1984) represented frequently in his printed œuvre. After graduating from Columbia University in 1927, he traveled through Europe for two years and spent several of the Depression years (1929-31) in East Cornwall, Connecticut, eventually gaining employment as an art teacher at the Brearley School, a private all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. In 1934, Landeck and his friend and fellow printmaker, Martin Lewis started the short-lived School for Printmakers in New York (1924-35). Landeck retired to Connecticut in 1958. Kraeft 42.
