Sep 16, 2010 - Sale 2221

Sale 2221 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JOLAN GROSS BETTELHEIM
Untitled (The Manhattan Bridge).

Lithograph on cream wove paper, circa 1940. 351x251 mm; 13 3/4x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right.

The last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River (following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges), the majestic Manhattan Bridge connects Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The bridge opened to traffic on New Year's Eve, 1909.