Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

HERMAN VOLZ (1904 - 1990)


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Lithograph, circa 1938. 260x355 mm; 10¼x14 inches. Signed and numbered 20/40 in pencil, lower margin. From an edition of 40.
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Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Volz came to San Francisco, California in 1933 and was active on the WPA Print Project in San Francisco and later Los Angeles in the 1940s. This scene is most likely a San Francisco scene created in the year 1938. Volz has artworks in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Crystal Bridges Art Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. He had a one man exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in 1942.