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

297  GEORGE BELLOWS Legs of the Sea . Lithograph on cream laid Japan paper, 1921. 216x270 mm; 8 1 / 2 x10 5 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of 53. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed and inscribed “imp” by the printer, Bolton Brown, in pencil, lower left. This lithograph depicts sunbathers at Third Beach, Newport, Rhode Island. A superb, richly- inked impression. Mason 131. [2,000/3,000] 298 c GEORGE BELLOWS Introducing Georges Carpentier . Lithograph on thin, cream wove paper, 1921. 368x530 mm; 14 1 / 2 x20 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of 50. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin, and signed and inscribed “imp.” by the printer, Bolton Brown, in pencil, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large, scarce lithograph. According to Mason, the Carpentier-Dempsey fight, the prelude to which is captured by Bellows in this lithograph, “Was the first million-dollar gate—more than 80,000 spectators— at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City on July 2, 1921.” Mason 98. [6,000/9,000] 299 c GEORGE BELLOWS Artists Judging Works of Art . Lithograph on thin, cream wove paper, 1916. 373x483 mm; 14 1 / 2 x19 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of approximately 52. Signed, titled and inscribed “No. 26” in pencil, lower margin. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression. This represents a scene at the National Arts Club, New York; Bellows pictured himself in the lithograph at the extreme upper right. Mason 18. [5,000/8,000] 297