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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PEGGY BACON Moving to 8th Street.
Drypoint, 1920. 152x200 mm; 6x7 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated, dedicated and inscribed "#25" in pencil, lower margin. A very good, richly-inked impression.
The friends helping Bacon (1895-1987), at center with the hat box, are identified as Dorothy Varian, Kimon Nicolaides, and Arthur Bar-le-Duc.
Provenance: Downtown Gallery, New York, with the ink stamp verso.
Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery would hold an annual exhibit of young American printmakers each December and these early shows had a significant impact on the exchange of modern artistic ideas in New York that spread throughout the United States. This new generation of artists who also were members of the Whitney Studio Club, were known as the American Print Makers and included Bacon and Mabel Dwight. Flint 46.
