Malthide J. de Cordoba 1871-1942
"My Mere 1912"
Etching - drypoint.
1912
19 x 15cm (to plate marks)
Signed in pencil lower right.
There is a tear top right hand corner which stops at the plate mark.
The mount is foxed and stained but the image is pretty good as can be seen.
On watermarked wove paper.
Not framed.
Inscribed :
"To May (Mary?) in Memory of Mother 1912"
Mathilde de cordoba who was married to pedro de cordoba, a stage and screen star. sister in law to pedros sister mercedes de cordoba carles the wife of artist arthur b carles and aunt to their daughter artist mercedes carles matter who with husband photographer herbert matters started the n.y studio art school
The artist who did this piece was Mathilde de Cordoba
b 1871 d 1942, she was the eldest child of Pedro de Cordoba and Mathilde J de Cordoba. She had a brother (the actor you mentioned in the description) named Pedro de Cordoba and a younger sister named Mercedes de Cordoba. Mercedes married Arthur B. Carles. They then had a daughter also named Mercedes de Cordoba. Mercedes, with financial assistance from her unmarried aunt (the previously mentioned) Mathilde, went on to be the ground breaking abstract artist Mercedes Matter.
I just wanted to update you with the corrected information.
Etching - drypoint.
1912
19 x 15cm (to plate marks)
Signed in pencil lower right.
There is a tear top right hand corner which stops at the plate mark.
The mount is foxed and stained but the image is pretty good as can be seen.
On watermarked wove paper.
Not framed.
Inscribed :
"To May (Mary?) in Memory of Mother 1912"
Mathilde de cordoba who was married to pedro de cordoba, a stage and screen star. sister in law to pedros sister mercedes de cordoba carles the wife of artist arthur b carles and aunt to their daughter artist mercedes carles matter who with husband photographer herbert matters started the n.y studio art school
The artist who did this piece was Mathilde de Cordoba
b 1871 d 1942, she was the eldest child of Pedro de Cordoba and Mathilde J de Cordoba. She had a brother (the actor you mentioned in the description) named Pedro de Cordoba and a younger sister named Mercedes de Cordoba. Mercedes married Arthur B. Carles. They then had a daughter also named Mercedes de Cordoba. Mercedes, with financial assistance from her unmarried aunt (the previously mentioned) Mathilde, went on to be the ground breaking abstract artist Mercedes Matter.
I just wanted to update you with the corrected information.
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