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JOHN SLOAN Hell Hole.
Etching and aquatint, 1917. 204x253 mm; 8x10 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 110. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin, and signed by the printer, Peter Platt, in pencil, lower center. A very good impression.
The print represents the back room of Wallace's, a bar popular with the actors and artists of Greenwich Village, at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street. Notable figures pictured in the print are Eugene O'Neill (background upper right), Peggy O'Neill, no relation to the former (seated at the table beside Eugene O'Neill), René Lacoste (right center) and Charles Ellis (left foreground). Morse 186.
