Jun 18, 2009 - Sale 2184

Sale 2184 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ABE BLASHKO
Scene from Les Misérables.

Pencil on cream wove paper, 1939. 455x293 mm; 18x11 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in reverse, lower left. Inscribed "preliminary study for 'The Candelabra' Les Miserables" in pencil, upper left. Dated "June 1939" in pencil, upper right and annotated lower margin. With a finished drawing of a horseback rider, verso. Signed in reverse and inscribed "distortion haywire," in pencil, lower right verso.