May 01, 2013 - Sale 2312

Sale 2312 - Lot 356

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHILDE HASSAM
The Billboards, New York.

Etching and drypoint, 1896. 120x160 mm; 4 5/8x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed with the artist's cypher and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce, early etching, with crisp plate edges.

This is one of Hassam's earliest New York etchings, depicting a scene on Broadway between 55th and 56th Streets. Clayton/Cortissoz 87.