Emil PIRCHAN

The present sheet is among a group of drawings by Emil Pirchan, produced around 1907, using a sort of marbling technique that he seems to have invented. Several such works on paper of this distinctive type can be seen in a 1907 photograph of the hallway of Pirchan’s home in Brno (illustrated in Beat Steffan, ed., Emil Pirchan: A Universal Artist of the 20th Century, Wädenswil am Zürichsee, 2018, pp.158-159), for which the artist designed all of the furnishings. Two similar works on paper are in a private collection in Vienna, while another comparable work has recently been acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.