AL HIRSCHFIELD - Reefer Man - Original color lithograph
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Artist: Al Hirschfield (American, 1903 - 2003).
Title: "Reefer Man [from the suite 'Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld']".
Medium: Original color lithograph.
Date: Composed 1930s. Printed 1941.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (302 x 225 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower left; annotated "PP" in pencil, lower left; signed in the plate, lower right. A printer's proof aside from the edition of 1,000. Cream laid handmade Canson & Montgolfier (Annonay, France) watermarked paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Provenance: Through Daniel W. Triggs, the executor of the estate of Frederick Triggs, Sr., the printer of the edition. Comment(s): Another impression of this lithograph, unsigned, was offered at $750 by Ro Gallery, Long Island City, New York, in April, 2020. Many of the Hirschfeld's images in the Harlem suite have become iconic representations of the African-American experience in the 1930's and are often considered to be the artist's best work. Printed by the Triggs Color Printing Corporation, New York; published by The Hyperion Press, New York. Image copyright © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, New York. [30046-2-600]
Title: "Reefer Man [from the suite 'Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld']".
Medium: Original color lithograph.
Date: Composed 1930s. Printed 1941.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (302 x 225 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower left; annotated "PP" in pencil, lower left; signed in the plate, lower right. A printer's proof aside from the edition of 1,000. Cream laid handmade Canson & Montgolfier (Annonay, France) watermarked paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Provenance: Through Daniel W. Triggs, the executor of the estate of Frederick Triggs, Sr., the printer of the edition. Comment(s): Another impression of this lithograph, unsigned, was offered at $750 by Ro Gallery, Long Island City, New York, in April, 2020. Many of the Hirschfeld's images in the Harlem suite have become iconic representations of the African-American experience in the 1930's and are often considered to be the artist's best work. Printed by the Triggs Color Printing Corporation, New York; published by The Hyperion Press, New York. Image copyright © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, New York. [30046-2-600]
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AL HIRSCHFIELD - Reefer Man - Original color lithograph
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