Apr 18, 2024 - Sale 2666

Sale 2666 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHILDE HASSAM
Swimmer, Morning--Facing Water.

Etching, 1916. 228x147 mm; 8⅞x5¾ inches, full margins. Signed with the artist's cypher and inscribed "imp." in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.

We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.

This etching represents a swimmer on the coast of Easthampton on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, New York. In 1919, Hassam (1859-1935) purchased a home in East Hampton where he lived and worked much of the remainder of his career. Cortissoz/Clayton 73.