Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

256 c CHILDE HASSAM The Dutch Door . Etching, 1915. 215x250 mm; 8 3 / 8 x9 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Signed with the artist’s cypher and inscribed “imp” in pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this very scarce etching. This is a portrait of Miss Helen Burke, the daughter of Toby Burke, the proprietor of a public house in Cos Cob, Connecticut, at one of the doors of the Bush-Holley house in Cos Cob. We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Cortissoz/Clayton 49. [15,000/20,000] 256 255