Drypoint Etching, Untitled

by John Groth

$650 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Signed

ca 1930-35. Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 27.5cm x 41cm ca 10-3/4 x 16 ; image area 15.5cm x 30cm. No edition stated artist's proof? . Signed in pencil, lower right. Old crease and kraft paper adhesions to extremities well away from image ; Near Fine. A chilling image of a pistol-wielding man fleeing the scene of a crime, leaving two bodies lying in the street. It is unclear whether the scene is intended as a commentary on growing racial

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