1188 - Esteban Fekete, woman with still life, half-figure behind bottles and wine glass, 43/100, dated 1977

Esteban Fekete, woman with still life, half-figure behind bottles and wine glass, 43/100, dated 1977 (1924 Cinkota near Budapest to 2009 Dieburg), colour woodcut/paper, signed in pencil lower right "FEKETE" and dated (19)77, numbered lower left "43/100", still life with half-figure, upper left head and shoulder of a woman with dark hair, in front on a yellow table a red bottle, a large dark globular bottle and a wine glass, on the right a vase with pale leaves, against a red-violet ground with fold pattern, good condition commensurate with age, image 24x29.5 cm (HxW), passe-partout, glazed, framed, glass partly clouded on the inside, overall 49.5x53.5 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 still life is a colour woodcut from the graphic art of the 1970s.