Sep 16, 2010 - Sale 2221

Sale 2221 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Two color screenprints.

LEON BIBEL. Carousel, 1939. 350x280 mm; 13 3/4x11 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 12/35 in pencil, lower margin * ELIZABETH OLDS. Merry-Go-Round, 1940. 9 1/2x15 inches, 1/4- to 2-inch margins.

Both Bibel and Olds made prints such as these, urban scenes of work and play, under the auspicies of the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City during the late 1930s/early 1940s.