Artist Emil Ganso
Title Still Life with Fish
Media wood engraving on paper
Dated 1936
Size 4.75 x 7 in. / 12.1 x 17.8 cm.
Sold $50 Estimate $100 - $150

Notes
unsigned; unframed

Reference
according to the consignor: this original wood-engraving print by American artist, Emil Ganso, was cut in 1933 and printed from two coloured woodblocks [black and gray] in 1936 in a limited edition for subscribers to The Colophon; It is shown as illustration number R-65C in The Prints of Emil Ganso by Donald E. Smith as 'Still Life With Fish'; Irwin Lefcourt's wife, Sarah, recounts an incident from the Woodstock years that occurred when Ganso was working on a woodcut, quite likely 'Still Life With Fish'. Emil used the family refrigerator to preserve a fish, taking it out by day to work and returning it to the refrigerator when he was done. After several days, the fish became a bit pungent, and Fanny Ganso put it in the garbage. Emil went to the refrigerator to retrieve his subject only to find it gone. On learning what had happened, he exploded: 'Fanny, you just threw out the still life!' - this quote taken from p. 24 of The Prints of Emil Ganso'

Provenance
private collection, Calgary