Feb 16, 2023 - Sale 2626

Sale 2626 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

EDWARD LANING (1906-1981)


Study for Black Friday: Richard Whitney and the Stock Exchange.
Black and sepia ink on illustration board, 1939. Signed, Laning, lower right. Signed, Edward Laning, and inscribed, Black Thursday, on verso. 400x355 mm; 15 3/4x14 inches.

This drawing is a study for Laning's 1939 oil painting titled Black Friday: Richard Whitney and the Stock Exchange, commissioned by Life Magazine in 1939, and illustrated in Life Magazine, depicting important events from the year 1929.