Mar 08, 2016 - Sale 2407

Sale 2407 - Lot 219

Unsold
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
REGINALD MARSH
Tattoo--Shave--Haircut.

Etching, 1932. 250x245 mm; 9 7/8x9 5/8 inches, wide margins. Tenth state (of 10). Edition of approxmately only 30. Signed and inscribed "#19" in pencil, lower margin. A richly-inked, brilliant, early impression of this very scarce, important etching.

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.