Nov 07, 2002 - Sale 1950

Sale 1950 - Lot 712

Price Realized: $ 4,830
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAN MATULKA
Cityscape (View of New York).

Etching and drypoint, 1923. 258x195 mm; 10 1/4x7 3/4 inches, small (full ?) margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. A richly-inked, proof-like impression of this extremely scarce print.

An extremely scarce print; we have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Flint illustrates a much lighter impression (collection of the Weyhe Gallery, New York), Jan Matulka, 1890-1972, Washington, 1980, p. 50, illus. 43. Flint 30.