Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 374

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
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 very good, 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.