Rudolf PICK
(Vienna 1865 - Vienna 1915)
The Giraffe Races
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Watercolour, pen and black ink, and gouache.
Signed and dated R. Pick 98 at the lower left.
399 x 608 mm. (15 5/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
Signed and dated R. Pick 98 at the lower left.
399 x 608 mm. (15 5/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
A comparable series of thirteen coloured lithographs of comical hunting scenes by Rudolf Pick, including one composition of a group of giraffes, served to illustrate a large-format portfolio entitled Lebel’s Sport-Collection. Jagden in Afrika und Asien: Skizzen zum Tagebuch des Lord John W. Humbug, published by Verlag S. Lebel in Vienna. Pick also produced a similar series of watercolours to illustrate The Stony Sinai, a humorous account of a British hunting expedition in the desert.
Pick is known to have produced at least one other finished watercolour drawing of a giraffe, which was included in the 1916 studio sale.
Pick is known to have produced at least one other finished watercolour drawing of a giraffe, which was included in the 1916 studio sale.
A pupil of the Austrian painter Eduard Gerisch and the Hungarian artist and illustrator Imre Revesz, Rudolf (or Rudolph) Pick was active as a painter, illustrator and caricaturist of sporting, racing and hunting subjects. He also worked as a designer of posters and advertisements. Some two hundred watercolours by Pick were included in the posthumous sale of the contents of the artist’s studio, held in Vienna in 1916.