?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
MARTIN LEWIS Bedford Street Gang.
Drypoint and sand ground printed in black, 1935. 226x365 mm; 8 7/8x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 25 only. Signed in pencil, lower right. A brilliant, richly-inked, luminous impression of this extremely scarce print.
According to McCarron, "The location depicted is Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, looking north toward Christopher Street. The brightly lighted marquee at upper right is the Hudson Movie Theater, today the Lucille Lortel Theater."
We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. McCarron 116.
