Lot 53
  • 53

Thomas Hart Benton

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Loading Corn; and Gateside Conversation (Fath 65 & 69)
  • Both signed
  • Lithographs
  • sheets approx.: 305 by 405 mm 12 by 16 in
Two lithographs, 1945 & 1946, each signed in pencil, from the editions of 250, on wove paper, circulated by Associated American Artists, New York, framed (2 prints)

Condition

The prints are in good condition, with wide margins. The first sheet with edges cut slightly evenly. The second sheet with faint handling creases in the margins. Each sheet with a spot of discoloration below the signature, associated with a sticker on the verso. (Each with faint discoloration at sheet edges and stray traces of ink in the margins.) The versos with a strip of thin tissue along the top edge of the sheet and with a few pale fox marks, each with one showing through slightly.
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