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Subway Playground
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Color lithograph, 1951. 480x347 mm; 19x13
3
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of 30. Signed
in pencil, lower right.A very good impression of this scarce color print. Fine/Looney 294.
[1,000/1,500]
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Portrait of Carl Zigrosser
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Lithograph, 1942. 367x286 mm; 14
1
/
2
x11
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of 30. Signed,
titled, dated and inscribed “Ed 30” in pencil, lower margin.
Zigrosser (1891-1975) was the Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from
1941 to 1963. Fine/Looney 214.
[1,000/1,500]
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Two lithographs.
Caustic Comment
, 1936. 247x367 mm; 9
3
/
4
x14
1
/
2
inches, full margins. Edition of 30. Signed,
titled, dated and inscribed “Ed. 30” and “PBS” in pencil by the artist’s son Peter, lower
margin.With the artist’s estate red ink stamp, lower right recto *
Plans for the Future
, 1939.
251x363 mm; 9
7
/
8
x14
3
/
8
inches, full margins. Edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and
inscribed “Ed. 30” and “WGS” by the artist’s widow in pencil, lower margin.With the
artist’s estate red ink stamp, lower right recto.Very good, dark impressions. Fine/Looney
126 and 162.
[1,500/2,500]
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