Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JAN MATULKA
Cityscape (View of New York).

Etching and drypoint, 1923. 258x195 mm; 10 1/4x7 3/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. A richly-inked, proof-like impression of this extremely scarce print.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. Flint illustrates a much lighter impression (collection of the Weyhe Gallery, New York), Jan Matulka, 1890-1972, Washington, 1980, page 50, illustration 43. Flint 30.