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JOHN SLOAN
Fifth Avenue Critics
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Etching, 1905. 115x170 mm; 4
1
/
2
x6
3
/
4
inches, full margins.Tenth state (of 11). Edition of
100. Signed, titled and inscribed “100 proofs” in pencil, lower margin. A superb, dark
impression with strong contrasts. Morse 128.
[1,200/1,800]
162
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JOHN SLOAN
Roofs, Summer Night
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Etching, 1906. 135x180 mm; 5
1
/
4
x7 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of
110. Signed, titled and inscribed “100 proofs”in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark
impression with strong contrasts. Morse 137.
[2,000/3,000]
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JOHN SLOAN
Mosaic
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Etching and aquatint, 1917. 203x253 mm; 8x10 inches, full margins. Edition of 35 (from
an intended edition of 100). Signed and inscribed “100 proofs” in pencil, lower margin.A
superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce print.
We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years.
According to Sloan,“The plate is a satire on abstract art, and implies that followers of the
trend are obeying the Mosaic Law.” On a proof impression of this subject now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sloan made an inscription, portions of which
he also engraved in the plate which reads: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that
is in the water under the earth.” Morse 185.
[3,000/5,000]
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