Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

SAMUEL MARGOLIES (1897-1974)


Coaling Up.
Etching and aquatint. 250x295 mm; 9 7/8x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, New York,. Circa 1937-38.

A very good impression.

Margolies was born and raised in New York City and studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. From 1935 through 1939 he worked in the Works Progress Administration easel-painting program as a printmaker.