Yali und sein weisses Weib (Yali and His White Wife)
Max Pechstein, Yali und sein weisses Weib (Yali and His White Wife), 1923, illustrated book with eight drypoint and etchings and one lithograph; bound in quarter vellum with hand-painted pattern after design by the artist on front and back, Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund, © artist or other rights holder, 59.12
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- Title
Yali und sein weisses Weib (Yali and His White Wife)
- Related Titles
original language: Yali und sein weisses Weib
translated: Yali and His White Wife
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Fritz Gurlitt Verlag (German)
- Date
1923
- Medium
illustrated book with eight drypoint and etchings and one lithograph; bound in quarter vellum with hand-painted pattern after design by the artist on front and back
- Edition
5/220
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
14 1/4 in x 11 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature/maker's mark: each eteching signed in pencil by Max Pechstein, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Prints
- Object Type
book
- Culture
German
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund
- Accession Number
59.12
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, Max Pechstein traveled to the South Seas in search of artistic inspiration. He drew on his real life experience for his illustrations for the fictional Yali and His White Wife, a fantasy about a white woman shipwrecked as a baby and raised by the Ona tribe. Pechstein’s primitive drypoints and etchings enhance the exotic aspects of the book, as does the hand-painted cover by the artist.
Text by Willy Seidel (German, 1887-1934).
- Exhibitions
1991 Inner Visions: German Prints from the Age of Expressionism Portland Art Museum; The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Duke University Museum of Art; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Tacoma Art Museum
2004 The Enchantment of the Artist's Book: Selections from the Collection of the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
2013 Artist & Book: 100 Years Portland Art Museum
