Sep 12, 2013 - Sale 2322

Sale 2322 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PORTFOLIO
The American Scene No. 1: A Comment upon American Life by America's Leading Artists.

Portfolio with complete text and 5 (of 6) lithographs, 1934. 400x290 mm; 15 3/411 1/2 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 300 copies, numbered 24 on the justification page. Each lithograph signed, 3 dated and 1 titled in pencil, lower margin. Printed by George C. Miller. Published by the Contemporary Print Group, New York. Original portfolio case.

Includes prints by GROSZ, OROZCO (Hopkins 23), BIDDLE, DEHN (Lumsdaine/O'Sullivan 270) and BURCK. Lacks the Marsh print.

With a letter from the distributor, Raymond & Raymond, Inc., New York, dated February 5th 1934, to George Biddle's cousin, Constance Biddle.