Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
The Corral.

Lithograph, 1948. 247x352 mm; 9 3/4x13 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good impression with strong contrasts.

According to Benton, this lithograph was based on a 1939 drawing he made in western Nebraska, during a trip through the Plains region with U.S. Army personnel to buy quarter horses for the French light artillery in World War II. Fath 71.