Anton PRINNER - Original photomontage signed by Denise Colomb.

Anton PRINNER (1902.1983)

Original photomontage by Denise Colomb. 1957.

Silver print showing Prinner in the foreground posing with his sculptures.

Magnificent large format print (29 x 39 cm) signed by Denise Colomb, in black marker, in the lower right margin.

Nicknamed the “little woodpecker” by her friend Picasso because of her small size and the direct carving she did in tree trunks, Anton Prinner was born a woman (Anna) in Budapest in 1902. She studied at the Fine Arts in Budapest and emigrated to France in 1926. In Paris, she changed her first name and took on a masculine identity, partly due to the machismo of the art world but probably also a dual identity. Painter, designer, engraver and sculptor, she was initially close to constructivism, then from 1938, her work became more figurative, she sculpted large totem figures or androgynous characters in wood and bronze, influenced by Egyptian statuary.