Fantasy (first state)
(1916) Lithograph Print
7-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches
19.37 x 24.13 cm.
(sheet dimensions are sight size)
Image: 7 x 9"
Frame: 15 x 16-3/4 x 3/4"
$ 3,500.00
A rare working proof from an edition of perhaps 8 impressions in two states. The other known impression (Mason 9 i/II) is in the Wiggin Collection, Boston Public Library.
The print here includes an original drawing of a torso and two heads on the verso.
Signed by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (JBB)
Bibliography: Lauris Mason, assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 9 i/II
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 127 "working proof"