Four Friends (First Stone)
(1921) Lithograph Print
12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
31.9 x 24.8 cm
Image: 10-1/8 x 7-1/4"
Mat: 20 x 16"
$ 4,500.00
Edition 17, very rare
Depicts friends and fellow artists (left to right): Leon Kroll (1884-1974); Bellows himself; Eugene Speicher (1883-1962); and Robert Henri (1865-1929) at Henri's studio at 10 Gramercy Park, NYC.
Signed by the artist's daughter,
Jean Bellows Booth (JBB)
A very rich impression
Bibliography: Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 100 second state
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 181
Lauris Mason assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne, Revised edition (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992), 100 first state