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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
CHILDE HASSAM Polly Kane.
Etching, 1917. 155x215 mm; 6x8 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed with the artist's cypher and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower right. Additionally inscribed "selected for Rea McCullough--proof on old bible paper" in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection Kleemann Galleries, New York, with their label. A superb, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce print, with strong contrasts.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 20 years; it sold at Swann, October 31, 2008, sale 2160, lot 341. Cortissoz/Clayton 129.
