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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
PEGGY BACON The Socialist Meeting.
Drypoint on imitation Japan paper, 1919. 152x201 mm; 6 1/4x8 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early print.
Flint cites only two other impressions in public collections. We have found only two impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
Bacon (1895-1987) spent the summers of 1915, 1916 and 1917 as an aspiring art student in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the established artists Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Abraham Walkowitz and Marguerite and William Zorach were also in residence and had a profound impact on her. She also studied at the Art Students League, New York, from 1915 to 1920, attending life classes with John Sloan and portraiture classes with George Bellows.
This scene represents a lecture in New York by the Irish-American poet, novelist and children's book author Padraic Colum (1881-1972). Flint 14.
