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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOHN SLOAN The Picture Buyer.
Etching, 1911. 135x179 mm; 5 1/4x7 inches, full margins. Fifth state (of 5). Edition of 85 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection Kraushaar Galleries, New York, with the original label. A superb, richly-inked and dark impression.
Sloan (1871-1951) captured this scene at the Macbeth Gallery, New York, where he and fellow artists Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast and Everett Shinn had their first group show in 1908 which ushered in the "Ashcan School" of American Realism and gained these artists the moniker "The Eight." Sloan remarked in his diary regarding this etching, "An incident in the galleries of William Macbeth--he is shown purring in the ear of the victim [the picture buyer]." Morse 153.
