Lot #114: AL HIRSCHFELD - Cocoa Venus - Original color lithograph

 

Artist: Al Hirschfeld (American, 1903 - 2003).
Title: "Cocoa Venus [from the suite 'Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld']".
Medium: Original color lithograph.
Date: Composed 1930s. Printed 1941.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 15/16 x 11 3/4 in. (227 x 298 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $800
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,200/1,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right; annotated "PP" in pencil, lower right; signed in the plate, lower left. A printer's proof aside from the edition of 1,000. Cream laid handmade Canson & Montgolfier (Annonay, France) paper. Margins as issued. Fine impression. Fine condition. Provenance: Through Daniel W. Triggs, the executor of the estate of Frederick Triggs, Sr., the printer of the edition.
Comment(s): Another impression of this lithograph, unsigned, was offered at $950 by Ro Gallery, Long Island City, New York, in April, 2020. Many of the Hirschfeld's images in the Harlem suite have become iconic representations of the African-American experience in the 1930's and are often considered to be the artist's best work. Printed by the Triggs Color Printing Corporation, New York; published by The Hyperion Press, New York. Image copyright © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, New York. [30058-2-800-NA]