Nov 02, 2017 - Sale 2460

Sale 2460 - Lot 256

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
CHILDE HASSAM
The Dutch Door.

Etching, 1915. 215x250 mm; 8 3/8x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed with the artist's cypher and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this very scarce etching.

This is a portrait of Miss Helen Burke, the daughter of Toby Burke, the proprietor of a public house in Cos Cob, Connecticut, at one of the doors of the Bush-Holley house.

We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Cortissoz/Clayton 49.