18. Albert Sterner
(1863-1946)

The Penitent or Consolation

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Sterner: The Penitent

The Penitent or Consolation

Lithograph, ca. 1930, 343 x 294 mm. Fine impression on thin, laid japan paper with full margins, signed in red chalk and numbered from the edition of 20. Sterner was born in London of American parents, lived with relatives in Germany for a time, and rejoined his family in Chicago around 1880. His initial artistic work was as an illustrator for magazines but, after study in Paris with Gérome, among others, he turned to more serious painting and printmaking. Much of his work is of a today-little-appreciated genre: he creates a scene and asks the viewer to supply the story -- and such is the case here.