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Details
- Place where the work was made
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New York
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United States of America
- Date
- 1917
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
- 14.2 x 10.0 cm platemark; 22.0 x 17.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed, dated u.l. image, [incised plate] "HB 1917"; signed l.r., pencil "Horace Brodzky"
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Collection Benefactors 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 278.2023
- Copyright
- © Estate of Horace Brodzky
- Artist information
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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 portrait of a boxer recalls the work of his American contemporary George Bellows, who was well known for his powerfully unsentimental depictions of boxing matches and the gritty underbelly of New York working class and immigrant life.
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Where the work was made
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