Oct 06, 2016 - Sale 2424

Sale 2424 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WALTER WILLIAMS (1920 - 1988)
The Friends.

Aquatint on cream wove paper, 1955. 451x375 mm; 17 3/4x14 3/4 inches, wide margins. Proof, aside from an edition of an uknown size. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Not For Sale, Marlena Williams, 1968" in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist's widow, Marlena Willaims; private collection, Denmark.

Williams made a series of etchings depicting New York street scenes in the mid-1950s. We have no records of this very scarce print in any collection or at auction.