May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 388

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

Lithograph, 1939. 255x338 mm; 10x13 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A superb impression with strong contrasts.

Benton used a dilapidated house and surrounding landscape in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, where he and his family summered, as the setting for this subject. Fath 29.