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Amusement Park, Vienna   -1928, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 2. Edition 22. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil. Initialed B.M.S. in the stone.

Image size 9 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (247 x 242 mm); sheet size 17 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches (451 x 321 mm).

A fine impression on chine collé, with full margins (1 1/4 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert. One of the artist's earliest prints.

Collections: FLP, PMA.

$1850.


Slack Rope Artist   -1930, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 35. Edition 30. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 13 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (347 x 257 mm); sheet size 18 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (467 x 324 mm).

A fine impression, on cream chine collé, with full margins (1 1/8 to 2 3/4 inch), in excellent condition. Hinge remains on the top and bottom sheet edges verso. Printed by Desjobert.

Collections: FLP, PMA.

$2800.


The Flashy Back   -1931, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 56. Edition 34. Signed, titled and numbered 24/34 in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right.

Image size 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (318 x 241 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (403 x 292 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with full margins (7/8 to 2 inches), on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce.

Collections: FLP, PMA.

$4500.


Church at Night   -1932, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 59. Edition 40. Signed and numbered 6/40 in pencil.

Image size 13 1/4 x 11 9/16 inches (337 x 294 mm); sheet size 17 1/4 x 13 inches (438 x 330 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with full margins (5/8 to 2 7/8 inches ), on cream laid Japan. Minor glue stains on the top sheet edge, left and right, otherwise in excellent condition. Printed by Cuno and signed Theo. Cuno in pencil, lower left margin.

Collections: FLP, PMA.

$1600.


Introduction to Love   -1935, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 110. Edition 35. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (263 x 342 mm); sheet size 15 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches (384 x 514 mm).

A superb impression, with full margins (2 1/8 to 3 1/2 inches), on Barcelona-Catalunya cream laid paper, in excellent condition.

Reproduced in American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy collection, the trust for museum exhibitions Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: FLP, PMA

$4500.


Girl and Cat   -1935, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 121. Edition 33. Signed, titled, and numbered 10/33in pencil.

Image size 10 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (257 x 345 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches (318 x 448 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with full margins (1 to 2 1/8 inches), on cream wove paper, in excellent condition.

$2200.


The People Work - Evening, 1937, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 143. Edition 40. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 18/40 in pencil.

Image size 13 5/8 x 19 7/8 inches (345 x 480 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 22 7/8 inches (400 x 581 mm).

A fine impression, with full margins (1 1/8 to 2 inches), on Rives off-white wove paper, in excellent condition.

Illustrated in A Nation on the Move: Industrial prints of America,Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1988.

Collections: FLP, PMA, NGA, WMAA.

SOLD


Credo 3: I Believe in Man   -1942, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 211. Edition 35. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil.

Image size 16 x 9 3/16 inches (406 x 233 mm); sheet size 20 x 12 7/8 inches (508 x 327 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on Rives cream wove paper, with full margins (1 7/8 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collection: PMA.

$1800.


Ecclesiastes Essay IV   - 1946, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 248. Edition 40. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 17 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (448 x 324 mm); sheet size 21 1/2 x 16 inches (546 x 406 mm).

A superb impression on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 5/16 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Cuno, with his blindstamp in the lower left sheet edge.

$800.


Eyes for the Night   - 1947, Lithograph

Fine and Looney 260. Edition 35-40. Signed, dated, titled and numbered Ed 35in pencil. Initialed in the stone.

Image size 19 1/16 x 12 3/4 inches (484 x 324 mm), sheet size 23 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches (600 x 438 mm).

A deep, rich impression, with full margins (2 to 2 3/8 inches), on heavy cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Printed by Cuno.

Collections: FLP, LC, PMA.

$1400.


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