1357 - Godal, Erich (attributed). Dedicated to Jo. Set of 10 (including the title page) signed original etchings. Berlin, ca. 1920. 35 x 26 cm. Loose in a period cardboard folder (worn, spine with missing covering).

Godal, Erich (attributed). Dedicated to Jo. Set of 10 (including the title page) signed original etchings. Berlin, ca. 1920. 35 x 26 cm. Loose in a period cardboard folder (worn, spine with missing covering). One of Godal’s earliest erotic portfolios, likely in a very limited edition. - Title page inscribed in the lower right corner: “Final version, print no. 6.” - Sheet size: 33.5 x 24 cm. Varying image sizes. - The press cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator Eric(h) Godal (1899–1969) worked for the *Welt am Sonntag* in the postwar years. Godal, who had studied under Ernst Stern in Berlin, among others, worked in the 1920s for such well-known magazines as “Orchideengarten,” “Aktion,” “Uhu,” and “Simplicissimus,” created stage sets for Max Reinhardt, and designed SPD posters. In 1933, he emigrated to Prague, where he worked for the AIZ, among others, and moved to New York in 1935. There, together with Franz Höllering, he founded the exile newspaper “Star” and contributed to the exile newspaper “Aufbau.” Due to McCarthyism, he returned to Germany in 1954. - The reverse side of the plates bears a small collector’s stamp (H. J. Döpp). - Sun-faded.