Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 384
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CLASSIC NEW YORK IN THE TWENTIES IVAN OPFFER.
"Edgar Lee Masters and H.L. Mencken at Brown's Chop House, NY Back in `20." Charcoal on paper. 298x483 mm; 11 3/4x19 inches. Signed and dated "`41" lower right; Inscribed and Signed to Kimball Flaccus "with best of best and a `hell of a time with the three (Masses) girls' - Ivan." Lower left and upper right corners chipped, toned, with lighter border showing, two cellotape repairs on verso. 1941.
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While at City College, Flaccus established the Phonographic Library of Contemporary Poets, recording the voices of such famous poets as Edgar Lee Masters, Genevieve Taggard, Arthur Davison Ficke, and John Hall Wheelock reading their own poems. For many years, Flaccus was engaged in writing a biography of Edgar Lee Masters, and had accumulated massive files of research on Masters' life. This image shows the boozing, cigar-smoking lions of New York at their favorite steakhouse. The "Masses" girls he refers to were employees of the socialist magazine with which he was affiliated.