Swann Galleries - African-American Fine Art - Sale 2402

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HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859 - 1937)

Raising of Lazarus

Etching on cream laid paper, circa 1910. 178x127 mm; 7x5 inches, 1-inch (full ?) margins.

This richly inked print, with dark edges and hand-wiping, is a proof of an extremely scarce

have found only one other impression in a public or private collection.There is a signed impression in

the collection of Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation, San Antonio, which was exhibited in

Henry

OssawaTanner: Modern Spirit

, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - see plate 68, pg. 236.

With a hand-written note in ink by the owner that it was authenticated by Jesse O. Tanner, the

artist’s son, on the frame back.

Tanner created this print about a dozen years after his famous painting,

The Resurrection of Lazarus

1896.Tanner achieved great success in Paris with the acceptance of his Biblical subjects, culminating

with the state’s purchase of

The Resurrection of Lazarus

in 1897 after its inclusion in the Salon that

year, and its housing in the Musée du Luxembourg. In his essay on

The Resurrection of Lazarus

in the

Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit

catalogue, Marc Simpson wrote that this etched view of the

central figures is “known in only a few impressions.” Marley p. 75.

[15,000/25,000]