Jun 05, 2003 - Sale 1973

Sale 1973 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
THE PREPARATORY DRAWING AND THE LITHOGRAPH ABE BLASHKO
Sideshow Attraction.

Pencil on cream wove paper, 1939. 370x585 mm; 145/8x231/8 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower left, and inscribed "Dec. 4, 1939, made Litho Dec. 25-27 '39, Printed Jan. 16--1940" in pencil, upper right. With a study of a seated man in profile and 2 lightly sketched standing figures in pencil, verso.

With--Side Show, lithograph, 1939-40. 306x475 mm; 121/8x183/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled and numbered 16/35 in pencil, lower margin. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression.