Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914 - 2005)
Lovers.

Lithograph on pale grey wove paper, 1938. 355x297 mm; 14x11 3/4 inches, full margins. A later printing, circa 1990s. Signed, titled, and numbered 9/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York, with the blind stamp lower right.

This lithograph is Crichlow's only surviving image from the WPA; an impression from the first edition is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Reba and Dave Williams.