Jan 27, 2022 - Sale 2593

Sale 2593 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977)


"WPA Wage Cuts" * "Economize! Cut W.P.A..
Together, two New Deal/WPA-themed political cartoons published in Freiheit. Pen and ink with blue pencil tracing on paper. First measures 390x286 mm; 15 1/4x11 1/4 inches, sheet, unsigned. Second measures 290x387mm; 11 1/2x15 1/2 inches, sheet, signed "Gropper" in lower right. Both with blue pencil printing notations in margins.

Provenance: Collection of the artist, thence by descent.