Apr 15 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2700 -

Sale 2700 - Lot 224

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JOHN SLOAN (1871 - 1951)
Arch Conspirators.

Etching, 1917. 105x149 mm; 4⅛x5⅞ inches, wide margins. Edition of 100. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. Morse 183.

Additional Details

Artists celebrating on top of the Washington Square Arch for the establishment of the mock, bohemian "secession of Greenwich Village from the United States," including Marcel Duchamp (standing), the actor Charles Ellis (far left, seated), the poet Gertrude Drick (left-center) and Sloan himself (at the far right, in profile with a pipe).