1172 - Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt, Vixen with Four Cubs on a Grassy Slope

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt, Vixen with Four Cubs on a Grassy Slope (1895 to 1977), etching on paper, signed in pencil lower right, numbered 19/100 lower left, five foxes on a grass-covered slope, the vixen with four cubs, two animals with their heads lowered deep into the grass, the others turned attentively towards the viewer, the fur modelled throughout in dense needle-like lines, the upper edge of the composition closed off by darkly hatched shrubbery, condition commensurate with age, water-stained, light-stained margins, image 21x30.5 cm (HxW), behind glass, framed, frame bumped, overall size 33x41.5 cm (HxW) Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt is among the best-known German animal etchers of the 20th century. After studying at the Munich Academy he worked almost exclusively in etching and colour etching and devoted himself above all to young animals, whose movement and expression he captured in small editions. His prints were widely distributed through art publishers and remain the works by the artist most frequently encountered on the market.