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HENRI FARRE Bears at Stagg Field.
Etching, 1928. 272x455 mm; 10 7/8x17 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin.
This scarce etching depicts Chicago Bears halfback Red Grange, also known as "The Galloping Ghost," breaking from the pack during a game. Grange (1903-1991) was a three-time All-American at the University of Illinois and led his team to a national championship in 1923.
Stagg Field, the largest field in Chicago at the time (it was on the University of Chicago campus), was also the site where Enrico Fermi in 1942, working as part of the Manhattan Project, created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in his laboratory which was located beneath the stands. There is a Henry Moore (see lots 546-555) sculpture Nuclear Energy, 1964-65, in a small quadrangle where the stadium once stood which commemorates Fermi's experiment.
With-- A. BERKMAN. Football, etching. 200x277 mm; 7 7/8x11 inches, wide margins. Signed and inscribed "imp" and "trial proof" in pencil, lower margin. Very good impressions.
