May 01, 2003 - Sale 1969

Sale 1969 - Lot 498

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MARTIN LEWIS
Building a Babylon, Tudor City, N. Y.

Drypoint printed in bluish black on cream wove paper, 1929. 330x207 mm; 13x81/4 inches, full margins. Trial proof, aside from the edition of 84. Signed and inscribed "imp" and "proof on Shogun paper" in pencil, lower margin. Pale time and mat stain, scattered spotting.

McCarron lists 4 trial proofs; he also notes several impressions from the published edition on shogun paper. A brilliant, early impression with rich burr. McCarron 76.