Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Albee, Grace (1890-1985)
Four Wood Engravings Related to Animals.

1) Egg Mass, January 1966, number sixteen of twenty, numbered, dated, titled and signed by Albee, with further note in her hand, "Praying Mantis, hand burnished, Jap. Vellum, G.A."; 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.; 2) Prince, 1979, depicting a horse in bust, from an edition of seventy-five, numbered, titled and signed, 6 1/2 x 5 in.; 3) Goldfish, 1931, untitled unsigned first state proof, inscribed to that end in artist's hand, 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; and 4) Peter Rabbit's Brother Died, untitled unsigned wood engraving in brown ink, signed in the plate, depicting a small grave with headstone lettered in a juvenile hand, matted, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (4)