Preliminaries (Preliminaries to the Big Bout)
(1916) Lithograph Print
17 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches
44.77 x 53.98 cm
Sheet dimensions are sight size)
Image: 15-3/4 x 19-1/2"
Frame: 31-1/4 x 34-3/4 x 1-5/8"
Price on Request
Edition: 67
Depicts a prize fight at Madison Square Garden
Signed in pencil by the artist's
daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (J.B.B.) Numbered by the artist
Bibliography: Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 24
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 36 and p. 169