Robert Gwathmey - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Sarah Clark-Langager, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Order and Enigma; American Art Between the Two Wars, 1984; Clifford Ackley and Shelly Langdale, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Screenprints: 1930s-1960s, 1991; Reba White Williams, Linda Tyler and Barry Walker, Tamarind Institute, Hot Off the Press: Prints and Politics, 1994, no. 1; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950, 2007; and Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, 2008 (back cover illustration).

  • Catalogue Essay

    This image is an early precursor to American Pop art and the related painting is in the Brooklyn Museum.

250

The Hitchhiker

1937
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, the colors fresh.
I. 16 3/4 x 13 in. (42.5 x 33 cm)
S. 21 5/8 x 17 in. (54.9 x 43.2 cm)

Signed in black ink, from an unknown but small edition, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017