Oct 07, 2004 - Sale 2015

Sale 2015 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RARE EARLY LITHOGRAPH Can-Can.
Color lithograph, 22x17 inches. Inscribed and signed by Hirschfeld and numbered 14/25 in pencil, lower margin. Circa 1928.
A hand-pulled lithograph from Hirschfeld's Paris days. The inscription reads "To Albert and Frances [Hackett] because they have the good sense to own a [Beauford] Delaney - Al"
The Hacketts, long-time friends of Hirschfeld's, went on to a storied career as screenwriters for such movies as "The Thin Man," "'Easter Parade," and " The Diary of Anne Frank."