Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints - Sale 2429: Part III, November 3, 2016

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CHILDE HASSAM

Reading in Bed

Etching, 1915. 175x145 mm; 6

inches, full margins. Signed with the artist’s cypher

and inscribed “imp.” in pencil, lower center. A superb, richly-inked impression of this

extremely scarce etching.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Cortissoz/Clayton 28.

[5,000/8,000]

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JOHN SLOAN

Arch Conspirators

Etching, 1917. 110x153 mm; 4

x6 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of

100. Signed, titled and inscribed “100 proofs” in pencil, lower margin.A very good, richly-

inked impression.

Artists celebrating on top of the Washington Square Arch to establish the “secession of

Greenwich Village from the United States,” including Marcel Duchamp (standing), the

actor Charles Ellis (far left, seated), the poet Gertrude Drick (left-center) and Sloan himself

(at the far right, in profile). Morse 183.

[1,500/2,500]

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