Mar 03, 2005 - Sale 2035

Sale 2035 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FRITZ EICHENBURG
Subway.

Wood engraving, 1934. 159x121 mm; 61/4 x43/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A fine, dark impression.

Eichenberg fled Germany with the rise of Hitler, whom he had lampooned in his cartoons, finally settling in New York. This work is one of a small series of images depicting his first impressions of the city during the depression.