Jun 30, 2022 - Sale 2611

Sale 2611 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WANDA GÁG
Moonlight.

Lithograph, 1926. 359x428 mm; 14 1/8x16 7/8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 60. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by George Miller, New York. A very good impression. Winnan 26.

Gág's (1893-1946) first solo exhibition was held in 1926 at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. Like Edward Hopper, Gág's works reveal a disenchantment of the "American Dream" between the two world wars and seem to capture a moment in time, giving life to inanimate objects when there are no humans present. Coming to New York to attend the Art Students League on a scholarship in 1917, Gág began to explore the city's less aesthetic scenes, such as the subway stations, further encouraged by her classes with John Sloan.