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

270 c MARTIN LEWIS The Great Shadow . Drypoint printed in brownish black on cream wove paper, 1925. 258x175 mm; 10x7 inches, full margins. Edition of 86. Signed in pencil, lower right. A brilliant, early impression with inky plate edges. McCarron 44. [4,000/6,000] 271 c MARTIN LEWIS Cronies . Aquatint, 1932. 238x276 mm; 9x10 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of 60. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression. McCarron 96. [3,000/5,000] 272 c MARTIN LEWIS R. F. D. Drypoint and sand ground on cream laid paper, 1933. 250x300 mm; 9 7 / 8 x11 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 148. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression with all the tonal nuances distinct. A view in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, where Lewis resided during the Great Depression; the mailbox references Lewis’s Connecticut neighbor, friend and fellow printmaker Armin Landeck. McCarron 106. [4,000/6,000] 270