Polo Sketch
(1921) Lithograph on thin white China paper Print
8-7/8 x 11 inches
22.54 x 27.94 cm.
Image: 8-1/2 x 10-1/8"
Frame: 16-3/4 x 18-7/8"
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Edition: 20
Extremely rare: one of only three impressions still in private hands
Related to three of Bellows' paintings: "The Polo Game" (1910), Private Collection, Houston; "Polo at Lakewood" (1910), Columbus Museum of Art, and "Crowd at the Polo Game" (ex coll.: John Hay Whitney, Museum of Modern Art, NY), sold at Sotheby's in 1999 to Bill Gates for $67 million.
Signed by the artist and by his printer, Bolton Brown
Provenance: Marie Sterner Gallery (label verso)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY (label verso)
Private Collection, Gaithersburg, MD
Bibliography: Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 70
Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 87