Sale 2491 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 1, 2018

251 c WINSLOW HOMER Perils of the Sea . Etching on cream imitation Japan paper, 1888 (printed later). 405x530 mm; 16x21 3 / 8 inches, wide margins. The posthumous edition of 50 (aside from the lifetime edition of 100), with the anchor remarqué and with the publisher’s name effaced. Printed by Charles White, New York. Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A very good impression. Goodrich 98. [5,000/8,000] 252 c CHILDE HASSAM Lion Gardiner House . Etching, 1920. 250x357 mm; 9 3 / 4 x14 inches, full margins. Signed with the artist’s cypher and inscribed “imp” in pencil, lower right. A very good, richly-inked impression of this important etching, with strong contrasts and selective wiping of the ink on the plate. Hassam spent most of his summers outside New York and first visited East Hampton in 1898, where he would return again and again until moving there and buying a home in 1919. The historic, tree-lined streets of the Hamptons provided him with the vistas of contemporary life that he sought to capture without nostalgia, drenched in light and shadows. In this etching from 1920, depicting the Lion Gardiner house in East Hampton, the figure in the foreground, Uncle David Gardiner, was a local descendant of the original owner and the current occupant when Hassam etched him standing among the elms in October of that year. Cortissoz 159. [7,000/10,000] 253  FRANK W. BENSON Marsh Gunner . Etching, 1918. 277x225 mm; 10 7 / 8 x8 7 / 8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 150. Signed and numbered “91” in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark and well-inked impression with selective wiping and strong contrasts. Paff 149. [3,000/5,000] 251