Mar 09, 2010 - Sale 2206

Sale 2206 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JACKSON LEE NESBITT
Soaking Pits.

Etching, 1946. 252x346 mm; 10x13 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 70. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.

After the ingots are stripped and taken by conveyor to the soaking pits, they are positioned upside down and given a blast of heat. The ingots are picked up by tongs and put back on the conveyor to go to the blooming mill. From: Jackson Lee Nesbitt, New Orleans, 1993. Retif/Salzer 17.