Sep 26 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2679 -

Sale 2679 - Lot 34

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

JOHN SLOAN (1871-1951)

Bandit's Cave. 1920.
Etching. 17½x12¾ cm, 6⅞x5 inches; full margins. Edition of approximately 500. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. From the New Republic.

Morse 195.

According to a diary kept by Sloan, this etching represents, "Uptown thrill seekers during the period of Prohibition about to venture into a basement 'tea room' in Bohemia . . . one of the cafes in the Village." This scene of New York, Prohibition-era nightlife shows a group of cheerful revelers entering an underground, Greenwich Village speakeasy, advertising "tea and dance" on their sign. These downtown New York "tea rooms" were well known to patrons for serving illegal liquor.
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