Mar 05, 2015 - Sale 2375

Sale 2375 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GEORGE BELLOWS
The Life Class, First Stone.

Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, 1917. 354x494 mm; 14x19 1/2 inches, full margins. First state (of 2), with the shading on the model's torso. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed "George Bellows" and intialed "J.B.B." by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth, in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph. Mason 43.