Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REGINALD MARSH
Tattoo--Shave--Haircut.

Etching with hand coloring in watercolor, 1932. 250x245 mm; 9 x9 5/8 inches, wide margins. Tenth state (of 10). Edition of approxmately only 30. Signed in pencil, lower right. A richly-inked, brilliant, early impression of this very scarce, important etching, with strong colors.

This scene beneath the El on the Bowery is also depicted in Marsh's tempera painting Tattoo and Haircut of the same year, now at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sasowsky 140.