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JOHN SLOAN Hell Hole.
Etching and aquatint, 1917. 204x253 mm; 8x10 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 110 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression with strong contrasts.
This etching represents the back room of Wallace's, a New York bar popular with the actors and artists of Greenwich Village, at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street. Notable figures pictured by Sloan (1871-1951) in the etching 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.
