1187 - Esteban Fekete, reclining nude, female nude before houses with vase and bottle, 42/100, dated 1977

Esteban Fekete, reclining nude, female nude before houses with vase and bottle, 42/100, dated 1977 (1924 Cinkota near Budapest to 2009 Dieburg), colour woodcut/paper, signed in pencil lower right "FEKETE" and dated 1977, numbered lower left "42/100", reclining female nude, upper body and arm turned to the right, the right arm resting on a dog, before houses with red roofs and a tower, on the right a blue vase, a dark bottle and a patterned cloth, in violet, blue, orange and yellow, good condition, image 22x30 cm (HxW), passe-partout, glazed, framed, overall 47.5x53.5 cm (HxW) Esteban Fekete, born in 1924 in Cinkota near Budapest, was a civil engineer, went to Buenos Aires in 1948 and turned to painting there from 1952, encouraged by the art critic Julio E. Payró; in 1964/65 he settled in Roßdorf-Gundernhausen near Darmstadt, became a German citizen in 1978, received the Lichtenberg Prize in 1979 and from 1984 worked at times in Kenmare in Ireland; he died in Dieburg in 2009. From 1961 he created more than 700 colour woodcuts, documented in a four-volume catalogue raisonné; they were printed from usually four to six plywood blocks on the hand press, the individual sheets usually in an edition of 100. The Fekete woodcut with the nude is a colour woodcut from the graphic art of the 1970s.