Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700

FLETCHER MARTIN (1904 - 1979)


Fawn and Serpent.
Woodcut on thin wove paper, circa 1933. 170x240 mm; 6¾x9⅜ inches, wide margins. Signed, titled and numbered 5/25 in pencil, lower margin. Edition of 35 or less. Published by the San Francisco Works Progress Administration (WPA), Print Division.

Another example of this print was exhibited at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, a one man exhibition in 1934. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has one print from this edition in their collection.
Fletcher Martin was a well known and important artist from California identified with the American Scene painters of the 1930s and 1940s.

Additional Details

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years.