Clara Klinghoffer - Mother and Child

Mother and Child

Clara Klinghoffer's original lithograph entitled, "Mother and Child" clearly displays the qualities of her art. The ability to convey such warmth and strength with such simplicity is simply a mark of genius. Another impression of "Mother and Child" is included in the permanent collection of the Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Original Lithograph by Clara Klinghoffer.

Mother and Child

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Title:	Mother and Child
Artist:	Klinghoffer, Clara (Austria, 1900 - London or New York, 1970)
Date:	c. 1955
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Note:	"I consider Clara Klinghoffer an artist of great talent, a painter of the first order. ... Her understanding of form places her in the very first rank of draughtsmen in the world."-- Sir Jacob Epstein
	Clara Klinghoffer: Although she was born in Austria and spent most of her post World War Two years in the United States, Clara Klinghoffer is considered an important English painter and printmaker. Born in a poor family she moved to London's East End at a young age. Showing a remarkable aptitude for art her parents managed to buy her art supplies and enrolled her in a modest class in Aldgate. At the age of fifteen she took a portfolio of her work to London's Central School of Arts and Crafts. There her drawings fortunately came to the attention of the influential teacher and scholar, Bernard Meninsky. It is reported that upon first seeing her work Meninsky stated, "Good Lord, that child draws like da Vinci."
	Clara Klinghoffer was then invited to study at the Slade where she remained for two years. Her outstanding abilities continued to draw recognition and in 1919 her mentors, which included Sir Jacob Epstein, Walter Sickert, Alfred Wolmark and Meninsky, organized her first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Hampstead Gallery in London. The exhibition was a huge success and Clara Klinghoffer, at age of nineteen, found herself among the leaders of British women artists.
	During the 1920's and 1930's Clara Klinghoffer continued to exhibit her fine portraits and figure studies both in England and in Europe. During this time the National Portrait Gallery, London, acquired three of her works and the Tate Gallery purchased a painting in 1933. In 1929 she married a Dutch journalist and moved to Amsterdam. In 1939, the Nazi invasion of Holland forced Clara Klinghoffer and her family to flee first to London and finally to the United States.
	Following the end of World War Two (1945), Clara Klinghoffer lived and worked in both London and New York. She began exhibiting her art in the United States at this time.
	As an original printmaker Clara Klinghoffer first practiced etching in the 1920's and 1930's. Her initial lithographs date from around 1950. Depicting mainly figure studies and nudes, a number of these lithographs were commissioned by the Associated American Artists in New York in limited, signed editions of 250. In all likelihood, Mother and Child was published by the A.A.A.
	Since its creation in the mid 1930's, the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. In the 1950's and 1960's, contributing artists included Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, Lawrence Beall Smith, James Kearns and, of course, Clara Klinghoffer.
	Mother and Child clearly displays the qualities of Clara Klinghoffer's art. The ability to convey such warmth and strength with such simplicity is simply a mark of genius. Another impression of Mother and Child is included in the permanent collection of the Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Edition:	Limited Edition of two hundred and fifty impressions numbered 147/250.
Size:	10 3/4 X 8 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on smooth wove paper and with full margins as published around 1955. Signed, titled and numbered, '147/250' by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A beautifully printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Mother and Child represents a superb, original example of the famous art of Clara Klinghoffer.
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