158
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JOHN SLOAN
Female Nude Studies
.
Color crayons on smooth, cream wove paper. 395x307 mm; 15
1
/
2
x12
1
/
8
inches. Initialed
and signed in red crayon, recto.
[1,500/2,500]
159
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JOHN SLOAN
Connoisseurs of Prints
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Etching, 1905. 127x178 mm; 5x6
7
/
8
inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed, titled and
inscribed “100 proofs” in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression.
The first of John Sloan’s “NewYork life plates,”
Connoisseurs of Prints
depicts an exhibition
of prints to be auctioned at the old American Art Gallery, on East 23rd Street and Madison
Square. Sloan planned a series of “Connoisseurs” themed prints, however, this was the
only plate realized. Morse 127.
[2,000/3,000]
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