?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
THE PREPARATORY DRAWING AND THE LITHOGRAPH ABE BLASHKO The Pillars.
Pencil on smooth cream wove paper, 1939. 510x320 mm; 203/8x125/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left. Inscribed "Lithographed Apr. 13 '40, "The Pillars"--drawn March 13-15--1939--on stone" in pencil, verso. With a study of a man writing at a desk in pencil, verso.
With--The Pillars, lithograph, 1939. 488x307 mm; 191/4x121/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 15/35 in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, dark impression with strong contrasts.
Another impression of this lithograph was sold at Swann, September 16, 1999, sale 1832, lot 76.
