Mar 03, 2005 - Sale 2035

Sale 2035 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JACKSON LEE NESBITT
Auction Barn.

Lithograph, 1939, 319x432 mm; 121/2x17 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed, titled, numbered 159/250 and inscribed Inscribed "With best wishes to Bill Pelletier, Jackson Lee Nesbitt. -December 30, 1991," in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection William S. Pelletier, with his ink stamp verso. A superb richly-inked impression on heavy cream wove paper.

The subject for this work came from a visit the artist made to the barn while on a sketching trip with Thomas Hart Benton years earlier. Retif/Salzer 37.