Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

SAMUEL MARGOLIES (1897-1974)


Storm Over City Hall.
Etching and aquatint. 300x225 mm; 11 3/4x8 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 25. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. 1936.

A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print. Beall 48.

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.