Sale 2507, Part I - Old Master Through Modern Prints, May 2, 2019

201  JOHN SLOAN Hell Hole . Etching and aquatint, 1917. 204x253 mm; 8x10 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 110 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled and inscribed “100 proofs” in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression. This etching represents the back room of Wallace’s, a New York bar popular with the actors and artists of Greenwich Village, at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street. Notable figures pictured in the etching are Eugene O’Neill (background upper right), Peggy O’Neill, no relation to the former (seated at the table beside Eugene O’Neill), René Lacoste (right center) and Charles Ellis (left foreground). Morse 186. [2,000/3,000] 202 c JOHN SLOAN Shine, Washington Square . Etching, 1923. 125x177 mm; 4 7 / 8 x7 inches, wide margins. Fifth state (of 5). Edition of 80 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled, inscribed “100 proofs” and dedicated in pencil, lower margin. With— Bonfire , etching, 1920. 125x184 mm; 5x7 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 75 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled and inscribed “100 proofs” and dedicated in pencil, lower margin. Both very good impressions with strong contrasts. Morse 206 and 198. [1,500/2,500] 201