Jan 25, 2024 - Sale 2657

Sale 2657 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

CARL E. PICKHARDT, JR. (1908-2004)


The Subway.
Lithograph., circa 1939. 255x205 mm; 10x8⅛ inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 30. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.

A very good impression.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1931, Pickhardt continued to study art and was awarded the university's prestegious Bacon Travel Fellowship in 1935 to extend his studies to Europe. The same year, he exhibited drawings at Jacques Seligmann Galleries in New York. After a brief move to New York, Pickhardt returned to Boston in 1940. He married the daughter of Fogg Museum director Edward W. Forbes in 1953. His later works were spontaneous abstractions and explore the randomness of movement.