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A horizontal print of three figures. Left, a forward-facing person holds a sleeping infant. Center, a bald head in profile facing right. Right, a wrinkled elderly face overlaid with faint sketches of smaller figures.
Mutter und Kind
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Mutter und Kind

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1984
MediumSoft ground and etching
Dimensions6 1/2 x 14 in. (16.5 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.60
Collections
Visual DescriptionA horizontal print of three figures. Left, a forward-facing person holds a sleeping infant. Center, a bald head in profile facing right. Right, a wrinkled elderly face overlaid with faint sketches of smaller figures.
A print with a large face gazing forward in the top left, holding a faintly outlined infant with an outstretched arm. On the right, a heavyset, wide-eyed bald man holds a tiny dangling figure in his fist. Faint outlines of other figures fill the lower area including a woman running with an infant in her arms.
Bestia Triumfans I
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print split into two sections. The top depicts several flayed, skeletal figures fighting and wielding clubs. Below are detailed portrait sketches of two individuals wearing soft caps, with the right person pointing toward the left.
Durer and Raphael
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print featuring a woman's face beside an oval-framed profile at the top. The middle shows faint sketches of small figures fighting with clubs. The bottom displays a stern man with wild hair and a cravat.
Eroica
Jiri Anderle
1988
A print of a massive, heavily shaded, grimacing bald giant grasping small human figures near his mouth. To the right, several lightly drawn women react in terror; one holds a baby, one lunges forward, and another screams.
Bestia Triumfans III
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print featuring four small portraits of men in historical armor and clothing. Below them are two large faces: an older, open-mouthed man in profile and a forward-facing youth. Faint, overlapping geometric lines overlay the entire composition.
Galerie Historique de Versailles III
Jiri Anderle
1987
A print featuring a large profile head whose cranium is replaced by a dense, complex mass of interwoven shapes and lines. Below are two realistically shaded, forward-facing portraits: a woman on the left and a man on the right.
Quid Faciemus?
Jiri Anderle
1983
A print with a large, highly detailed sketch of a heavily lined, bald elderly man's face dominates the center. It is surrounded by a grid of smaller drawn heads, varying from realistic portraits to severely distorted, fragmented, and grotesque faces.
Sunt Lacrymae Rerum II
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print with a fine-lined sketched portrait of a forward-facing person with a neutral expression. The face and neck are rendered with dense, cross-hatched shading emphasizing the eyes, while the hair and shoulders are only faintly outlined.
Cassandra
Jiri Anderle
1984
A collage of vintage handwritten documents with stamps and folded-up pages. To the right is a sketch of five overlapping bald profile heads. Below are four scratchy, linear sketches of an elderly face drawn from various angles.
Protokoll Nr. 1
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print of a nude woman with hands over her chest and groin, standing beside a heavily detailed, decaying skeletal figure with exposed anatomy. Below them rests a halved pomegranate with red seeds and a cluster of grapes.
Madchen und Tod
Jiri Anderle
1983
A print of a man with dark hair, head tilted slightly upward, holding a large woven basket overflowing with grapes and round fruits. The person's arms cradle the bottom of the basket, with draped fabric visible near the lower right. Based on Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio.
Ragazzo con Canestro di Frutta
Jiri Anderle
1982
A print of a person with voluminous hair holding a lute. Sheet music is draped below the instrument. To the right is a vase filled with flowers and a small pile of fruit, including pears and grapes. After a painting by Caravaggio
Lute Player
Jiri Anderle
1982

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