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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
MARTIN LEWIS Hi-Li Tournament.
Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1937. 214x335 mm; 8 3/8x13 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 13. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this extremely scarce print with all the fine lines distinct.
In this scene, Lewis depicts children in his Upper East Side neighborhood playing paddle ball, known locally as "Hi-Li." McCarron asserts that the name likely originates from the Basque pelota game Jai Alai.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. McCarron 122.
