Sigmund Lipinsky (1873 Graudenz-1940 Rome)
The Council of the Gods
1923
etching and drypoint
21,8 x 13,8 cm (image)
signed and inscribed in pencil lower right: "S.Lipinsky Rom"
proof impression ahead of the numbered edition of 50 (60?)
The Daulton Collection
sheet 1 from the portfolio Radierte Bilder zu Homer's Odyssee, a cycle of 8 etchings made between 1923 and 1928 and published in Munich by Franz Hanfstängl in 1929
The Daulton Collection owns the entire portfolio as proof impressions ahead of the numbered edition of 50, without the title page and the colophon card.
Discussion:
"The Odyssee was created between 1923 and 1929 in Rome and on Anacapri, whose landscape and vegetation Lipinsky depicts in several panels. The project was originally intended to include other episodes of the Odyssey, but these have only survived as studies and have never been engraved. Nevertheless, the series is unanimously considered one of Lipinsky's highest artistic achievements as an etcher. Publisher Franz Hanfstängl published an edition of 60 [50?] numbered copies, but it seems that not all were marketed and sold, probably due to the economic crisis that year." B
