Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 335

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHN SLOAN
Arch Conspirators.

Etching, 1917. 110x153 mm; 4 1/2x6 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, richly-inked impression.

Artists celebrating on top of the Washington Square Arch to establish the "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). Morse 183.