Description:
Werner Drewes (German/American, 1899-1985)
Inner Tropical Seas, from the Portfolio Variations on a Dance Motif, 1944, edition of 35, published by Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York. Signed and dated "Drewes..." in pencil l.r., numbered "24-XXXV" in pencil l.l. Color woodcut on Japanese paper, plate size 9 1/2 x 15 in., framed.
Condition: Rippling, scattered creases, pale stains u.r. and l.l., not examined out of frame.
Estimate $400-600
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