Oct 06, 2022 - Sale 2616

Sale 2616 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WILLIAM E. SMITH (1913 - 1997)
Pay Day.

Linoleum cut on thin wove paper, 1938. 206x152 mm; 8 1/8x6 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 16/20 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.