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GEORGE BELLOWS
Introducing Georges Carpentier
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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 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.
[8,000/12,000]
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GEORGE BELLOWS
Between Rounds
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Lithograph on Japan paper, 1916. 518x412 mm; 20
1
/
4
x16
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition
of 58. Signed “Geo. Bellows” and initialed “J.B.B.” by the artist’s daughter, Jean Bellows,
and numbered “No. 42” in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, richly-inked impression.
Mason 25.
[5,000/8,000]
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Legs of the Sea
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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.
[2,500/3,500]
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