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Title

Messina cathedral after earthquake

circa 1911

Artist

Horace Brodzky

Australia, England

30 Jan 1885 – 11 Feb 1969

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    London → England
    Date
    circa 1911
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    etching
    Dimensions
    10.2 x 12.6 cm platemark; 22.6 x 25.2 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed l.l. corner image, [incised plate] "HB" [circled]; signed l.l., pencil "Horace Brodzky". Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Collection Benefactors 2023
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    279.2023
    Copyright
    © Estate of Horace Brodzky

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    Horace Brodzky

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  • About

    Horace Brodzky was born in Melbourne in 1885 but left Australia at the age of 20 with his family for the United States, marking the beginning of an international career focused largely on drawing, printmaking and design that would play out between New York and London until his death in 1969.

    Brodzky secured a particular reputation for his prints while in New York between 1915–23, having developed a loose amalgam of fauvist and post-impressionist techniques in London the previous decade. This is evident in Messina cathedral after earthquake circa 1911 where solid forms dissolve into effulgent light.

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    London

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