Jan 25, 2024 - Sale 2657

Sale 2657 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

LOUIS LOZOWICK (1892-1973)


Guts of Manhattan.
Lithograph on buff wove paper, 1939. 335x235 mm; 13⅛x9¼ inches, full margins. Edition of 20. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by George Miller, New York. 1939.

In the 1930s with the onset of the Great Depression, Lozowick turned toward depicting the social reality of New York City and its residents who were affected by economic despair. He also worked for public programs that supported artists, such as the New York Graphic Arts Division of the WPA and the Treasury Relief Art Project creating numerous prints and most notably in 1936, a mural for the New York City General Post Office. Flint 161.