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MARGUERITE ZORACH Man and Child.
Woodcut, 1917. 420x190 mm; 16 1/2x7 1/2 inches, wide margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. A good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.
Marguerite Thomas Zorach (1887-1968) was an American Fauvist painter and early exponent of modernism in America, born in California into a well-to-do family. She exhibited an interest in art at an early age, and studied at Stanford University before traveling to Paris with her aunt, where she was introduced to Gertrude Stein and exposed to the work of Henri Matisse. There she discovered her affinity for the color palette of the Fauves.
Marguerite studied for a period of time at the conservative Académie de la Grande Chaumière before attending the progressive art school La Palette, where she met her future husband William. Their marriage, in 1912, began a strong companionship in which the two artists consistently inspired, influenced and shaped each other's artistic lives.
