Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DOX THRASH (1893 - 1965)
The Champ.

Aquatint on cream wove paper, late 1930s. 89x80 mm; 3 1/2x3 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print.

According to John Ittmann, The Champ possibly depicts boxer Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949. Ittmann records the location of only three other impressions of this print in private collections. Ittmann 44.