Downtown, The El = 1921, Etching.

Zigrosser 134. Edition 30, plus c. 300 for the New Republic in 1924. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (175 x 219 mm); sheet size 9 1/4 x 13 inches (235 x 330 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with selectively wiped platetone; on buff wove paper, with margins (3/4 to 2 1/4 inches). A pressure mark in the top margin, not affecting the image, otherwise in excellent condition.

In 1924, this etching and five other originals by American printmakers were offered as a portfolio with a year's subscription to the New Republic. This impression from the New Republic portfolio.

Illustrated in A Treasury of American Prints, Simon and Schuster, 1939; One Hundred Prints from 100 Artists of the Art Students League of New York, 1875-1975, Art Students League, New York,1975; A Century of American Printmaking: 1880-1980, James Watrous, University of Wisconson Press, 1984.

Collections: BM (New Republic); DMFA (New Republic); DIA (New Republic); MMA (Steiglitz Collection); MoMA (Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller); NYPL (New Republic); PMA (Master Set); University of Nebraska (New Republic); Princeton University (New Republic); Smith College (New Republic).

$4500.

St. Paul's Against the El = 1930, Etching.

Z146. Edition c. 20. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (175 x 219 mm); sheet size 9 1/4 x 13 inches (235 x 330 mm).

A superb impression, with overall burr and rich, atmospheric platetone; on pale grey wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

Published by Alfred Stieglitz. Collections: PMA, MMA (Stieglitz Collection), MoMA (Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller).

SOLD

Figures, Downtown = 1932, Pencil.

Signed in pencil.

Image size 4 1/2 x 6 inches (114 x 152 mm).

Provenance: Estate of the artist. Ex-collections: Marlborough Gallery; Kennedy Galleries, Inc.; Sid Deutsch Gallery; Cape Split Place, Inc.; and Owings-Dewey Fine Art. With all the gallery exhibition labels on the original backing board.

Exhibited: John Marin, 1870-1953, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, November 28, 1970 - January 3, 1971.

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Sailboat = 1932, Etching.

Zigrosser 155. An unsigned impression from the first edition of 30. Signed and dated Marin 32 in the plate, lower left.

Image size 6 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (175 x 235 mm); sheet size 11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (189 x 403 mm).

A superb, richly inked impression, before steel facing, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper; full margins (1 7/8 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

A personal favorite of Marin's, another impression of the print, signed and dedicated to Georgia O'Keefe, bears the artist's notation A Beaut. Cover illustration of the catalogue raisonné, The Complete Etchings of John Marin by Carl Zigrosser. Illustrated in Zigrosser The Artist in America. Zigrosser pays special tribute to this work on page 19 of the catalog raisonneé: "...the scene becomes alive by power of his creative imagination. The artist has stripped away all extraneous detail and set down, in the white heat of his intuition, only the very essence of things."

Reproduced: Prints and Their Creators, A World History, Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc., 1974.

Collections: MMA (Steiglitz Collection); AIC (gift of Georgia O'Keefe); Smith College (AAG); PMA (AAG); Addison Gallery, Andover (AAG); Baltimore Museum of Art (AAG).

$3500.

The Lobster Fisherman = 1938, Etching.

Zigrosser 172. Edition 125. Signed and numbered 64/125 in pencil. Signed and annotated in the plate, lower right; titled, lower left.

Image size 8 7/8 x 7 inches (225 x 178 mm); sheet size inches 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches (321 x 235 mm).

A superb impression with rich burr and overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/8 inches); in excellent condition.

Printed by David Strang. Included with the published portfolio of reproductions of Marin drawings by Twin Editions, 1950, in the original cloth-bound portfolio.

Collections: PMA.

$4500.