Axel Wallert - Fashionable Lady with Feathered Hat - Antique Etching

Name: Axel Wallert - Fashionable Lady with Feathered Hat - Antique Etching
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA967674
Availability: SoldOut

1900 - 1920

Sold by Brave Fine Art

Description

This stylish early 20th-century etching by Swedish artist Axel Wallert (1890-1962) depicts a young lady wearing an extraordinary hat.

She’s attending a busy function and dressed to impress in the fashion-a-la-mode. It’s tricky to decipher exactly how the hat is constructed but it’s probably feathered. It’s reminiscent of Edwardian bird hats, which were often extravagant and stacked high with taxidermy.

Axel Wallert was an accomplished etcher and it’s possible that the subject is Sigrid Roos who he married just four years earlier. Sigrid was also an artist.

Signed in the lower right in pencil and also in the plate.

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Medium: Etching on paper

Overall size: 9½” x 11½” / 25cm x 29cm

Year of creation: 1914

Condition: Artwork presents well.

Artist’s auction highlight: £31,365 achieved for an oil painting in 1999.

Physical Dimensions

Height

29cm (11.42")

Width

25cm (9.84")

Depth

2cm (0.79")

Declaration

Brave Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1910s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA967674

Description

This stylish early 20th-century etching by Swedish artist Axel Wallert (1890-1962) depicts a young lady wearing an extraordinary hat.

She’s attending a busy function and dressed to impress in the fashion-a-la-mode. It’s tricky to decipher exactly how the hat is constructed but it’s probably feathered.

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It’s reminiscent of Edwardian bird hats, which were often extravagant and stacked high with taxidermy.

Brave Fine Art

fig 1. Axel Wallert - Fashionable Lady With Feathered Hat - Antique Etching — fig 1. Axel Wallert - Fashionable Lady with Feathered Hat - Antique Etching

Axel Wallert was an accomplished etcher and it’s possible that the subject is Sigrid Roos who he married just four years earlier. Sigrid was also an artist.

Signed in the lower right in pencil and also in the plate.