Jan 24, 2013 - Sale 2300

Sale 2300 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WILLIAM GROPPER. The Big Shots.
Political cartoon probably for New Masses. 270x355 mm; 14 1/4x10 3/4 inches Lithographer's crayon, ink, and airbrush highlighted with white. Signed lower right. Nd.

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'The Big Shots' of American business are scathingly caricatured as a group of thugs, William Randolph 'Stinky' Hearst, Henry 'Pretty Boy' Ford, John D. 'Scarface' Rockefeller and J. P. 'Gyp-The-Blood' Morgan.