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Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
GEORGE BELLOWS Preliminaries.
Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, 1916. 400x495 mm; 15 3/4x19 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 67. Signed, titled and inscribed "No. 16" in pencil, lower margin. Expertly-repaired tear upper center, virtually imperceptible from the recto. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression of this important lithograph.
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 Bellow's only prize-fight lithograph in which women are present. Mason 24.
