Mar 07, 2013 - Sale 2306

Sale 2306 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
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, and inscribed "X" in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph. Mason 43.