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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
GEORGE BELLOWS Preliminaries.
Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, 1916. 400x495 mm; 15 3/4x19 1/2 inches (sheet), margins trimmed by the artist. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 67. A brilliant, dark and richly-inked impression of this very scarce, important and early proof.
Ex-collection the estate of the artist; private collection, New York.
The scene shows high society figures, notably--and remarkably for the time--well-heeled, fashionable women, attending a prize-fight at Madison Square Garden, New York. This is Bellows' only prize-fight lithograph in which women are present. Mason 24.
