Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

131 c ROCKWELL KENT Roof Tree . Lithograph, 1928. 276x376 mm; 10 7 / 8 x14 7 / 8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression. The practice of “topping out,” which is shown in this image, can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious rite of placing a tree atop the roof to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction. This practice migrated from Scandinavia to England and thence to the Americas. Burne-Jones 21. [1,000/1,500] 132 c ROCKWELL KENT Pinnacle . Lithograph, 1928. 305x185 mm; 12x7 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression. Burne- Jones 20. [1,500/2,500] 131 132