Erinyes

Erinyes   is original black China ink drawing on ivory-colored paper applied on cardboard, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter  Adolf Reinhold Hallman  around 1956 in New York City.

Hand-signed on the lower right.

With description on the rear

On the back the blue ink stamp  "Made in Italy by Adolf Hallman, 54 Via Margutta Roma".

The state of preservation is good.

This artwork represents the head of Erinye through confident and deft strokes in black ink with serious looks and long hair, the  Erinyes are  goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide.  Adolf Hallman  (1893 – 1968) was a Swedish illustrator who sensibly contributed to Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers and magazines, including Tidens Tegn, Dagbladet, Exlex and Politiken. Among his books is På Boulevard Europa. He illustrated editions of Charles Baudelaire's  Fleurs du Mal and Guy de Maupassant's Boule de Suif.