1205 - Tino Rex, "Katja mit dem Badetuch", portrait of a woman with red cloth, impression 2/10, dated 2007

Tino Rex, "Katja mit dem Badetuch", portrait of a woman with red cloth, impression 2/10, dated 2007 (born 1967 Rodewisch), colour woodcut/paper, signed "Rex" in pencil lower right and dated (20)07, titled "Katja mit dem Badetuch" lower centre, numbered "2/10" lower left, half-length figure of a woman, head and shoulders wrapped in a red patterned cloth, pale face with large eyes and red mouth, against a brown and blue ground with white dots, in red, black, brown, blue and violet, good condition, image 60.5x40 cm (HxW), behind glass, framed, glass damaged, overall 70x50 cm (HxW) The Vogtland printmaker Tino Rex, born in Rodewisch in 1967, came to printmaking through studies of art and German in Erfurt and Leipzig and has taught as an art teacher since 1995; as a member of the Bund Bildender Künstler and the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund he exhibits in Saxony, for example in 2008 at the Galerie am Domhof. The woodcut is his preferred technique, usually limited to one or two colours, with red and black recurring. For each colour a separate woodblock is cut and printed one over the other in relief. With its edition of ten sheets, the portrait of the woman with the bath towel belongs to the artist's numbered original prints.