Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 437

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MALCOLM MYERS
Agony.

Engraving, aquatint, etching and soft-ground etching, 1946. 455x322 mm; 18x12 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, asidefrom the edition of 35. Signed, titled and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression.

This print was made at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where Malcolm Myers (1917-2002) was Mauricio Lasansky's teaching assistant. In 1950, Myers received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year in Paris at Atelier 17.