Jaguar (Head)

Charles Fracè

Known throughout Latin America as ‘tigres,’ the jaguar is the largest and most powerful of all the cats in the Western Hemisphere. The word ‘jaguar’ is derived from the ancient South American Indian word ‘yaguar,’ which means ‘an animal that overcomes its prey in a single bound.’

Jaguars are heavily muscled, stocky cats weighing up to 300 pounds. They are spotted like leopards, but the rosettes are larger on a tawny or rich yellow background. The large rosettes on the back and sides often have a black spot in the center.

Being an agile climber, much of his hunting is done in the trees. He is also a strong swimmer and pursues his prey into lakes and rivers. Although at one time jaguars were found as far north as California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, they are now found primarily in the tropical and subtropical areas throughout Central and South America.

This limited edition print is: Signed by the artist

The edition size/date is: 12,500/1982

The issue price was: $25.00

The image size is: 18x14

The print was published by: Frame House Gallery

This print has never been framed and has been

stored flat in its original folder since publication.

This print was published over 20 years ago. While we have owned it since original publication, handled it with care, and stored it flat in its original folder, time and the original packaging can sometimes work together to leave slight “acid burn” marks on prints. This is due to the fact that publishers were not using conservation adhesives on the original folders for the prints at that time.

This particular print may indeed have some slight acid burn marks on it due to the non-conservation adhesives used on the original folder. This is a high quality, limited edition print, which has been sold-out from the publisher for a long time. The possibility of the slight acid burn marks has been taken into account in setting the minimum bid price for this highly desirable work of art.

The picture used in our listing is a digital photo of one of our prints (not a “stock photo” supplied by the publisher) and has not been re-touched in any way to remove any acid burn marks. As you can see, it is virtually impossible for a non-professional photographer to get an “all white” background to reproduce accurately.

Charles Fracè

Charles Fracè was born in 1926 in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania. He began drawing at five and taught himself to paint when he was fifteen. Fracè remembers wanting to be an artist from an early age. His self-instructed talent earned him a scholarship to Philadelphia=s Museum School of Art, where he graduated with honors.

In 1955, Fracè began a professional career as a freelance illustrator in New York City. Eventually, he became one of the nation=s most sought-after illustrators of wildlife. However Fracè soon grew frustrated by the restrictions of illustrating ideas conceived by others and longed to paint some of his own. He finished only one, which his wife Elke took to a nearby art gallery. They insisted on displaying the painting in the gallery, and it sold that same afternoon.

In 1973, with the issue of Fracè=s first limited edition print, he had finally made the permanent change to fine art. Fracè brings to his art over three decades of personal research and a close kinship with animals. Fracè=s art has been the subject of two books.

Perhaps the greatest honor of his career came in October 1992, when Fracè was recognized with a one-man exhibit of thirty-six of his paintings at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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