$2,200
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Auction: April 6, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
Pencil with additions in blue and black ink on tissue-thin tracing paper (the upper sheet folded back twice approximately 2 1/2 inches).
Executed circa 1935.
approx.: 16 x 14 5/8 in. (40.6 x 37.1cm)
[see Coppel CEP, 42; see Redfern, 42]
Provenance: Scholar Fine Art, London, United Kingdom.
Jeffery M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 2001).
note:
This is a working drawing for the 1935 linocut, 'Air Raid,' which is printed in reverse. The present drawing exhibits the artist's notes on registration holes and measurements and the composition is reinforced in blue and black ink verso.