Jun 09, 2005 - Sale 2046

Sale 2046 - Lot 78

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ABE BLASHKO
Scene from Les Misérables.

Pencil on cream wove paper, 1939. 455x293 mm; 18x111/2 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. With a finished drawing of a horseback rider, verso. Signed in reverse and inscribed "distortion haywire," lower right verso.

With--Scene from Les Misérables, lithograph, 1939. 455x293 mm; 18x111/2 inches. Signed, titled and numbered 29/35 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression. Two short edge tears.