Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings - Sale 2422, September 22, 2016

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171 ● JOHN MARIN
Downtown, the El.
Etching on cream wove paper, 1921. 173x222 mm; 6 3/4x8 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition
of approximately 275. Signed in pencil, lower left. Published by The New Republic, New
York. A superb, dark impression with warm plate tone.
According to Zigrosser, the total edition of The New Republic portfolio exceeded 500,
but the quota for Marin prints was divided between this print and another, Brooklyn Bridge
and Lower New York , etching, 1913 (Zigrosser 106), therefore making Marin’s etchings
scarcer than the Hopper, Sloan, Bacon, Miller and Haskell prints in the same portfolio.
Zigrosser 134. [3,000/5,000]
172 ● JOHN MARIN
Lower Manhattan from the Bridge .
Etching, 1931. 177x247 mm; 7x9 3/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of approximately
only 25. Signed in pencil, lower left. A superb, richly-inked, proof-like impression of this
extremely scarce etching with warm plate tone and the artist’s inky fingerprint, extreme
left margin.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. Zigrosser 149.
[7,000/10,000]
173 ● JOHN MARIN
St. Paul’s, NewYork.
Etching on Whatman paper, 1925. 216x170 mm; 8 1/2x6 3/4 inches, wide margins. Edition
of 20. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by Alfred Stieglitz, NewYork.
A very good impression. Zigrosser 141. [3,000/5,000]
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