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CHILDE HASSAM
Midsummer
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Etching printed in black on cream laid paper, 1919. 227x177 mm; 9x7 inches, full margins.
Signed and inscribed “imp” in pencil, lower right.A brilliant, richly-inked and early proof
of this extremely scarce etching, with strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
With an impression of
The Great Dance
, 1916, from the cancelled plate, with 5 diagonal
cancellation lines, printed in reddish sepia, on the verso. Cortissoz/Clayton 150 and 91.
[5,000/8,000]
