Oct 04, 2007 - Sale 2122

Sale 2122 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,675
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WILLIAM E. SMITH (1913 - )
Pay Day.

Linoleum cut on thin cream wove paper, circa 1941. 203x152 mm; 8x6 inches, 1/2- to 1 1/8 inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A good, dark impression of this scarce, early print.

Smith made another linoleum cut of this subject, with the pose reversed - impressions dated 1941 are in the collections of Hampton University, VA, and Harmon and Harriet Kelley, San Antonio, TX.