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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
MARTIN LEWIS (1881-1962)
Late Traveler. Drypoint. 247x300 mm; 9 7/8x11 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed "Martin Lewis P.L." by the artist's daughter-in-law, Patricia Lewis, lower right. Printed by Edna Myers, Montreal. 1949, printed circa 1982.
A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce print with dark contrasts.
According to McCarron, "Late Traveler is remarkable for the black tones that make up the kiosks, in particular their fish-scale patterned roofs, which are difficult to see except in the strongest light. All subway kiosks, like those depicted by Lewis, were torn down by the City of New York. A reconstructed example, built by the city at great expense, stands at Astor Place and Fourth Avenue, the entrace to the Astor Place station of the Lexington Avenue line." McCarron 143.
