$2,800
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Auction: May 8, 2019 1:00:00 PM EDT
1932, pencil signed and dedicated, one of 107 recorded impressions including 2 trial proofs, with wide margins. Drypoint and etching on wove paper.
image: 13 x 8 3/4 in. (33 x 22.2cm)
sheet (approx.): 16 1/16 x 11 5/8 in. (40.8 x 29.5cm)
[McCarron, 100]
Unframed
Provenance: Associated American Artists, New York, New York.
David & Ruth Robinson Eisenberg, Lakewood, New Jersey (acquired directly from the above in 1986).
By family descent.
Howard Eisenberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Collection of David & Ruth Robinson Eisenberg, lots 15-35
Freeman’s is pleased to offer a number of works of art from the distinguished collection of the Eisenberg family. These works, currently owned by Howard Eisenberg, have descended from the collection of Howard’s parents, David and Ruth Robinson Eisenberg.
Over a period of 50 years, David and Ruth Eisenberg collected prints by North
American artists throughout the United States and Canada. The collection contains a wide variety of artists and genres, and includes an extensive number of Depression Era prints made under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration in the latter half of the 1930s.
The Eisenbergs have donated a large portion of their collection, including
approximately 1300 works of art, to the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Many of these works, along with the works of numerous other artists, are currently on display in the Eisenberg Gallery of the Zimmerli.
Martin Lewis HA'ANTED:
Martin Lewis is undoubtedly one of the great masters of American print-making, and is best known for his black and white intaglio prints, often nocturnal scenes of life in New York City. In 1932, however, he left Manhattan for Connecticut, where he lived for the next four years. During this time, Lewis explored subjects related to the countryside. “Ha’nted” is an excellent example of his work from this period. An etching, it encapsulates the particular qualities of the medium, which Lewis once described as “a direct statement of form and line and implication of color. The range is from black to white and the delicacy of the tones that lie between is heightened by contrast with the sharp and incisive quality of line.” The present print certainly does exhibit Lewis’s affinity for the etching technique. Its rich surface and subtle gradations of tone and texture are hallmarks of his style, as are the evocative use of light and shadow. These technical achievements enhance the mysterious narrative and evocative quality of this very fine print.