Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 177

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REGINALD MARSH
Coney Island Beach.

Etching with hand coloring in watercolor and India ink, 1934. 254x253 mm; 10x10 inches, wide margins. Fourth state (of 4). Edition of approximately 14. Signed in pencil, lower right, and initialed and inscribed "This print drawn upon. with India ink" in pen and black ink, lower left. A superb impression.

A same-tited painting with a similar composition is in the collection of the Yale University of Art Gallery. According to Sasowsky, Marsh began the painting "by projecting an impression of the etching onto his painting panel, so that he could transfer the design," rather than basing the etching on an existing painting as was more typical. Sasowsky 153.