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MARGUERITE ZORACH The Temptation.
Etching and drypoint, 1909. 200x127 mm; 7 7/8x5 inches, 1 1/4-inch (full?) margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Paris" in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this scarce, early print.
After enrolling at Stanford in 1908, Zorach changed plans and traveled to Paris at the invitation of her aunt. She intended to study in the academic tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. However, after visiting exhibitions showing exciting new experiments taking place in art, she was influenced to study modern art movements instead. Her earliest work in Paris reflects the influence of Matisse and the Fauves. She met Picasso (who had just begun to define Cubism) and many other intellectuals and artists who strengthened her commitment. At La Palette Art School she became acquainted with William Zorach, a young American artist from Cleveland, whom she married in 1912. Prior to her return to the United States, Zorach traveled around the world with her aunt.
