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

112 c JOHN MARIN Downtown, The El . Etching, 1921. 170x219 mm; 6 5 / 8 x8 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 275. Signed in pencil, lower left. Published by The New Republic, New York. A superb impression. 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, making Marin’s etchings scarcer than the Hopper, Sloan, Bacon, Miller and Haskell prints in the same portfolio. Zigrosser 134. [2,500/3,500] 113  MARSDEN HARTLEY Dish of Apples and Pears . Lithograph, 1923. 320x430 mm; 12 5 / 8 x17 inches, full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce lithograph. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years (sold at Swann Auction Galleries, March 2, 2011, sale 2238, lot 30). University of Kansas 9. [3,000/5,000] 114  MARSDEN HARTLEY Grapes . Lithograph, 1923. 248x310 mm; 9 7 / 8 x12 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed “Berlin” and “No. 1” in black crayon, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. University of Kansas 4. [3,000/5,000] 112