Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 325

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
FRANK W. BENSON
The Gunners' Blind.

Etching and drypoint, 1921. 200x250 mm; 7 7/8x9 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil, lower left margin. A richly-inked impression with nice plate tone.

This dramatic print captures the gunners standing out in sharp relief against a sunlit sky. Of this magnificent plate a critic once wrote to Benson with the mistaken perception, 'I see you are etching in color now.' Paff 204.