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Albert Al Hirschfeld
ELLA FITZGERALD Lithograph, Celebrity Caricature Portrait, Female Jazz Vocalist

1993

About the Item

ELLA FITZGERALD is a limited edition lithograph by the renowned artist/caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) printed using traditional lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. ELLA FITZGERALD is an impressive black and white celebrity caricature portrait of "Lady Ella" wearing eyeglasses singing, holding a microphone in her left hand. Hirschfeld masterfully expresses her songful character using fluid black line drawing and cross hatching to create shadows and contours. Print size - 18.5 x 20.5 inches, image size - 13 x 15 in., unframed, excellent condition, unsigned printer's proof aside from the edition of 100 printed in the early 1990's. About the artist - Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Al Hirschfeld spent more than 75 years attending Broadway plays and sketching the stars for The New York Times and other publications. Full of wit and verve, Hirschfeld's distinctively bold, curvy line drawings caricatured stars from Groucho Marx and Ethel Merman through Barbra Streisand and beyond. His first newspaper sketches appeared in the 1920s, and he continued working until his death in 2003, working in a converted barber chair in his New York City studio. After the 1945 birth of his daughter Nina, Al Hirschfeld began hiding her name in his drawings, often tucked into hair or shirt folds. Finding the Ninas became a pastime with Hirschfeld's fans, and after a time he added a number to his signature to indicate how many Ninas each drawing contained. About Ella Fitzgerald (1917 -1996) - Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella.) She performed at top venues all over the world, and packed them to the hilt. Her audiences were as diverse as her vocal range. They were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one binding factor in common – they all loved her. Biography - official Ella Fitzgerald website
  • Creator:
    Albert Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1993
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)Width: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Excellent condition, unframed, unsigned Printers Proof aside from the edition of 100, hand torn print edges, from the master printers private collection.
  • Gallery Location:
    Union City, NJ
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU832315793482

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