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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MABEL DWIGHT Life Class.
Lithograph, 1931. 250x344 mm; 9 3/4x13 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 40. Printed by George Miller, New York. A superb impression of this scarce lithograph.
We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
According to Robinson/Pirog, Dwight did not sign all impressions within an edition.
Dwight (1876-1955) attended life drawing classes with the Whitney Studio Club, New York, through the 1920s. In the present work, Edward Hopper is depicted in the back of the class, bald head and furrowed brow. Jan Matulka is also depicted (far right), as well as Yasuo Kuniyoshi (at center with a pipe). Artist Peggy Bacon's drypoint, Frenzied Effort, 1925, in which Dwight is depicted, is also based on such a class at the Whitney Studio Club. Robinson/Pirog 52.
