Apr 28, 2022 - Sale 2602

Sale 2602 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MARTIN LEWIS
The Lunch Counter.

Etching printed in dark brownish black, 1927. 177x252 mm; 6 7/8x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 12. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, dark impression of this extremely scarce etching.

According to McCarron, Lewis made only five prints of interior scenes and, "This plate's depiction of a still life within the composition is unique among Lewis's prints." McCarron 56.