Nov 02, 2021 - Sale 2585

Sale 2585 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
MARTIN LEWIS
Break in the Thunderstorm.

Drypoint, 1930. 315x252 mm; 12 1/2x9 3/4 inches, full margins. First state (of 2). Artist's proof, aside from the edition of approximately 66. Signed and inscribed "final trial proof" in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print, with superb, velvety burr.

According to McCarron, "The location depicted is the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Park Avenue (New York), near Lewis's studio." McCarron 86.