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JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR Skyscraper en Construction, New York.
Etching, 1910. 299x188 mm; 11 3/4x7 1/2 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 3). Signed in pencil, lower left. A very good, early impression of this extremely scarce etching.
A view across Fifth Avenue and Broadway in New York, toward Madison Square Park and the contruction of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, built in 1909. It was the world's tallest building for 3 years, until 1913, when it was surpassed by the Woolworth Building. Laboureur 93.
