Winter Tree
Peter Takal
1901 to 1925
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1609
About the Artist
Peter Takal
Peter Takal (1905–1995) was a Romanian-born American artist renowned for his masterful pen-and-ink drawings and prints, which blended precise linear observation with surrealist undertones. Born on December 8, 1905, in Bucharest, Romania, Takal spent his early career in Europe, living and working in Berlin during the 1920s before moving to Paris in the 1930s, where he pursued acting alongside his a...