Sep 22, 2016 - Sale 2422

Sale 2422 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MARTIN LEWIS
Boss of the Block.

Etching and aquatint, circa 1939. 283x190 mm; 11 1/4x7 1/2 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of approximately 212. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good, richly-inked impression.

Lewis produced this print to benefit the League Print Fund of the Art Students League, New York. Other artists who contributed prints to the benefit include Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh and John Sloan.

Ex-collection Will Barnet, New York; thence by descent. McCarron 128.