May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 336

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
CHILDE HASSAM
The Writing Desk.

Etching printed in black on cream wove paper, 1915. 252x177 mm; 10x7 inches, full margins. Signed with the artist's cypher and inscribed "imp." in pencil, lower right. A superb, well-inked impression of this important etching with strong contrasts and with crisp, partially inky plate edges and the tack holes for drying at the extreme sheet edges.

This is a portrait of Hassam's wife, Kathleen Doan, at a desk in the dining room of the Bush-Holley house in Cos Cob. It is one of his largest and most complex etchings. Cortissoz/Clayton 54.